Customizing fonts in Squarespace: using the built-in fonts + Custom CSS

[@launchthedamnthing]

Please see the blog post for the rest of the step by step AND for the custom code snippets! 👉🏼 www.launchthedamnthing.com/blog/how-to-install-custom-fonts-on-squarespace

[@richmarshall1356]

GREAT hack, thanks!! Also, I have no idea why this works, but I just (A) found a template I liked, (B) searched “woff” within the Inspector of that template, (B) copy and pasted the the section that contained the “woff” files into the Custom CSS box, and (C) it worked like a charm! The entire site looks wayyyyy better. THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!

[@launchthedamnthing]

Hahaha! You're welcome! That's definitely something I've never tried before, but so glad this helped you!! If that webfont you found in Inspect mode is NOT available in Site Styles, do make sure you go track down the web font license somewhere & grab your own, just in case; there actually are services/robots/people who search specifically for fonts being used on websites without a license & I'm not sure how they know/don't know whether we have one or not, BUT it will never hurt to have proof that you DO have the "right" to use that font on your website. Penalties seem to range between 'just buy the license now' and 'you owe us licensing fees for all the months/years you've been using that font on your site x the monthly traffic that saw it.' (paraphrased, of course) 😬😳🫣 If that webfont is for a font that IS available in Site Styles, then you don't have to worry about getting your own font license (unless you also want to use it outside of Squarespace, like in Canva, etc), because Squarespace buys the commercial use licenses for all of those fonts so that we don't have to. 😊

[@richmarshall1356]

@@launchthedamnthing GREAT call out - thanks!!!

[@launchthedamnthing]

@@richmarshall1356 You’re welcome! 😁