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Use multiple @font-face rules in CSS

How can I use more than @font-face rule in my CSS?

I've inserted this into my stylesheet:

body {
    background: #fff url(../images/body-bg-corporate.gif) repeat-x;
    padding-bottom: 10px;
    font-family: 'GestaRegular', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

@font-face {
    font-family: 'GestaReFogular';
    src: url('gestareg-webfont.eot');
    src: local('☺'),
        url('gestareg-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
        url('gestareg-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
        url('gestareg-webfont.svg#webfontg8dbVmxj') format('svg');
}

This currently only applies for the whole body of text on the site. But, I would like to specify h1 to use a different font. How can I do this?

Solution

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    @font-face {
  font-family: 'Bumble Bee';
  src: url('bumblebee-webfont.eot');
  src: local('☺'), 
       url('bumblebee-webfont.woff') format('woff'), 
       url('bumblebee-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), 
       url('bumblebee-webfont.svg#webfontg8dbVmxj') format('svg');
}

@font-face {
  font-family: 'GestaReFogular';
  src: url('gestareg-webfont.eot');
  src: local('☺'), 
       url('gestareg-webfont.woff') format('woff'), 
       url('gestareg-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), 
       url('gestareg-webfont.svg#webfontg8dbVmxj') format('svg');
}

body {
  background: #fff url(../images/body-bg-corporate.gif) repeat-x;
  padding-bottom: 10px;
  font-family: 'GestaRegular', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

h1 {
  font-family: "Bumble Bee", "Times New Roman", Georgia, Serif;
}

    And your follow-up questions:

    Q. I would like to use a font such as "Bumble bee," for example. How can I use @font-face to make that font available on the user's computer?

    Note that I don't know what the name of your Bumble Bee font or file is, so adjust accordingly, and that the font-face declaration should precede (come before) your use of it, as I've shown above.

    Q. Can I still use the other @font-face typeface "GestaRegular" as well? Can I use both in the same stylesheet?

    Just list them together as I've shown in my example. There is no reason you can't declare both. All that @font-face does is instruct the browser to download and make a font-family available. See: http://iliadraznin.com/2009/07/css3-font-face-multiple-weights