scss SASS @ font-face mixin

Posted 2021-05-17

# Font Face

A mixin for writing @font-face rules in SASS.

## Usage

Create a font face rule. Embedded OpenType, WOFF2, WOFF, TrueType, and SVG files are automatically sourced.

```scss
@include font-face(Samplino, fonts/Samplino);
```

Rendered as CSS:

```css
@font-face {
	font-family: "Samplino";
	src: url("fonts/Samplino.eot?") format("eot"),
		 url("fonts/Samplino.woff2") format("woff2"),
		 url("fonts/Samplino.woff") format("woff"),
		 url("fonts/Samplino.ttf") format("truetype"),
		 url("fonts/Samplino.svg#Samplino") format("svg");
}
```

---

Create a font face rule that applies to bold and italic text.

```scss
@include font-face("Samplina Neue", fonts/SamplinaNeue, bold, italic);
```

Rendered as CSS:

```css
@font-face {
	font-family: "Samplina Neue";
	font-style: italic;
	font-weight: bold;
	src: url("fonts/SamplinaNeue.eot?") format("eot"),
	     url("fonts/SamplinaNeue.woff2") format("woff2"),
	     url("fonts/SamplinaNeue.woff") format("woff"),
	     url("fonts/SamplinaNeue.ttf") format("truetype"),
	     url("fonts/SamplinaNeue.svg#Samplina_Neue") format("svg");
}
```

---

Create a font face rule that only sources a WOFF.

```scss
@include font-face(Samplinoff, fonts/Samplinoff, null, null, woff);
```

Rendered as CSS:

```css
@font-face {
	font-family: "Samplinoff";
	src: url("fonts/Samplinoff.woff") format("woff");
}
```

---

Create a font face rule that applies to 500 weight text and sources EOT, WOFF2, and WOFF.

```scss
@include font-face(Samplinal, fonts/Samplinal, 500, normal, eot woff2 woff);
```

Rendered as CSS:

```css
@font-face {
	font-family: "Samplinal";
	font-style: normal;
	font-weight: 500;
	src: url("fonts/Samplinal.eot?") format("eot"),
	     url("fonts/Samplinal.woff2") format("woff2"),
	     url("fonts/Samplinal.woff") format("woff");
}
```

## Notes

IE≥9 prioritizes valid font formats over invalid ones. Therefore, while `embedded-opentype` is the correct format for an **.eot** font, `eot` is used to fool modern IE into prioritizing other, newer font formats.

IE≤8 only supports **.eot** fonts and parses the `src` property incorrectly, interpreting everything between the first opening parenthesis `(` and the last closing parenthesis `)` as a single URL. Therefore, a `?` is appended to the **.eot**’s URL, fooling older IE into reading all other sources as query parameters.

// =============================================================================
// String Replace
// =============================================================================

@function str-replace($string, $search, $replace: "") {
	$index: str-index($string, $search);

	@if $index {
		@return str-slice($string, 1, $index - 1) + $replace + str-replace(str-slice($string, $index + str-length($search)), $search, $replace);
	}

	@return $string;
}

// =============================================================================
// Font Face
// =============================================================================

@mixin font-face($name, $path, $weight: null, $style: null, $exts: eot woff2 woff ttf svg) {
	$src: null;

	$extmods: (
		eot: "?",
		svg: "#" + str-replace($name, " ", "_")
	);

	$formats: (
		otf: "opentype",
		ttf: "truetype"
	);

	@each $ext in $exts {
		$extmod: if(map-has-key($extmods, $ext), $ext + map-get($extmods, $ext), $ext);
		$format: if(map-has-key($formats, $ext), map-get($formats, $ext), $ext);
		$src: append($src, url(quote($path + "." + $extmod)) format(quote($format)), comma);
	}

	@font-face {
		font-family: quote($name);
		font-style: $style;
		font-weight: $weight;
		src: $src;
	}
}