Uploading of Specific Fonts on WordPress with Astra Theme

Copy-pasting from an email exchange:

we were trying to upload special fonts for headings and subheadings in the home page and we could not do it.

Can you pls check if it is related to any file permission issue.

 

Are you trying to install those fonts locally or use them by linking to Google's servers? 

If you are trying to install them locally, you probably may not have the required permissions.

I've now downloaded those fonts and installed them on the wp server locally. Maybe wpastra can pick them up from there. Please check.

 

(When they said it still did not work, I responded as follows:)

 

1. Google fonts can be linked in web pages in such a way that the users of the web pages get the fonts from google and display it on their browsers. If this has to work properly, there are several things which have to be taken care of. Example:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53344148/google-fonts-suddenly-stopped-working-on-wordpress-site

2. Another way in which fonts can be embedded in web pages is using fonts on your web server, like this,

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2237540/how-do-i-load-external-fonts-into-an-html-document

3. Another way in which fonts (any font) can be used is to just define the font, without embedding it - in this case, the font will fail to load if the same font is not present in the user's machine.

Without knowing what you are trying, whether the situation is 1, 2 or 3, I cannot help you further.

If you cannot tell me whether it is 1, 2 or 3, I would need access to a test page where the issue is seen.

 

(And they confirmed that it is working:)

The font issue is resolved, and we can choose the font type from the font family. We found out that we were missing one step for changing the font.