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    Posted by Emily Carter Netherlands
    I'm working on a website using Tiki Wiki CMS and I'm wondering if it's possible to use external fonts and graphics from platforms like https://www.creativefabrica.com/tools/font-generator/ or https://fontjoy.com/ on my site. Specifically, I'd like to add my own fonts and artwork to my pages, blogs, and forums. Are there any restrictions or special steps I need to take to integrate these resources into Tiki?
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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee Japan

    Hi Emily,

    You can use external fonts with Tiki as long as they are the proper type to use on websites rather than desktop fonts. Reading the FAQ at creativefabrica.com, I see that the fonts produced at that site aren't the correct file type to be used on the web (such as in Tiki), so you would have to convert them first. See https://design.tutsplus.com/articles/different-font-file-types-explained-ott-ttf-woff--cms-39047 for info about font file types. There are probably online font file type converters that would convert the font that you create into a web-compatible file type.

    Then to use a custom font in your site, you would need to add some CSS rules in the Look & Feel page of your site's admin section (tiki-admin.php?page=look) under the customization tab. I can give you more specific information when you get to this point.

    As for adding artwork to your pages, etc., of course that is possible but the way to do it depends on where you want the artwork to be placed. If the art is part of the content, then images can be uploaded to the site's file gallery and referenced by, for example, using PluginImg to display in a text area such as a wiki page or blog or forum post.

    If the art is to be part of the website theme, such as overall page backgrounds, blog post header backgrounds, or other recurring page elements, then custom CSS needs to be added, again at the Look & Feel admin page, to specify the particular graphic files to be used for particular page element backgrounds.

    -- Gary