You can implement your OTF
font using @font-face like:
@font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: url("path/GraublauWeb.otf") format("opentype");
}
@font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
font-weight: bold;
src: url("path/GraublauWebBold.otf") format("opentype");
}
// Edit: OTF now works in most browsers, see comments
However if you want to support a wide variety of browsers i would recommend you to switch to WOFF
and TTF
font types. WOFF
type is implemented by every major desktop browser, while the TTF
type is a fallback for older Safari, Android and iOS browsers. If your font is a free font, you could convert your font using for example a transfonter.
@font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: url("path/GraublauWebBold.woff") format("woff"), url("path/GraublauWebBold.ttf") format("truetype");
}
If you want to support nearly every browser that is still out there (not necessary anymore IMHO), you should add some more font-types like:
@font-face {
font-family: GraublauWeb;
src: url("webfont.eot"); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
src: url("webfont.eot?#iefix") format("embedded-opentype"), /* IE6-IE8 */
url("webfont.woff") format("woff"), /* Modern Browsers */
url("webfont.ttf") format("truetype"), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
url("webfont.svg#svgFontName") format("svg"); /* Legacy iOS */
}
You can read more about why all these types are implemented and their hacks here. To get a detailed view of which file-types are supported by which browsers, see:
@font-face Browser Support
EOT Browser Support
WOFF Browser Support
TTF Browser Support
SVG-Fonts Browser Support
Best Answer
Web-font for Japanese, though there are few providers exist, is not really practical as you found the size of the font data is too big to download. Usually Japanese font has 8,000-16,000 glyph so making new fonts means you need to make at least 8,000 glyph, which is pretty heavy task. As a result of it, there are very few variations in Japanese fonts, and Japanese users also care about fonts less than Latin-character users.
Most Japanese websites use default font sets provided on Windows or Mac. The latest ones are Meiryo and Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro. For older versions such like Windows XP, it is good to add former default fonts MS Gothic(or MS Mincho)/Osaka.
Some old browsers could not understand those font names in English, some others do not recognize the names in Japanese, so it is safe to write both in Japanese and English.
Meiryo and Hiragino's order is, because Mac users may have Meiryo from MS-Office, and Hiragino is more familiar and matching well on Mac, better by starting Hiragino series.
So the current recommended practice is like this,