There are several ways to set font types in your blogdown site:

  • Using web-safe fonts

  • Using web fonts, you should provide the font file by yourself.

Font files for chinese are usually large so web font is not an option. But english fonts are fine.

In the rest of the post I’ll demonstrate:

  • how to embed a ttf font into a blogdown website.

  • use google font.

Results:

I am in spin_cycle

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Web fonts

  • Download the .ttf(or whatever it is) font file, put it under static directory
  • In your css, add @font-face and set font-family in the class you wanna apply, done.

your css should look like:

@font-face {
  font-family: "spin_cycle";
  src: url("/spin_cycle.ttf");
}
body {
  font-family:  "spin_cycle"
}

Take a look at my repo for a example:

Google fonts

  • use @import to include the google font in your css, note that @import should go first in the file.

your css should look like:

@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans);

body{
   font-family: 'Open Sans',serif;
}