Failed to decode downloaded font in Meteor

Question

This is my CSS:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'geometria_lightlight';
    src: url('Geometria-Light-webfont.eot');
    src: url('Geometria-Light-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('Geometria-Light-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
         url('Geometria-Light-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('Geometria-Light-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('Geometria-Light-webfont.svg#geometria_lightlight') format('svg');
    font-weight: lighter;
    font-style: normal;

}

#logo{
  font-family: 'geometria_lightlight';
  font-size: 60px;
}

This is the message I am getting in Chrome: Failed to decode downloaded font: http://localhost:3000/Geometria-Light-webfont.woff2 localhost/:1 OTS parsing error: invalid version tag localhost/:1 Failed to decode downloaded font: http://localhost:3000/Geometria-Light-webfont.woff

I get this message with every single font that I download via Font Squirrel.

I am also getitng this, the error only relate to .woff font files. — JoeTidee, Mar 28 '16 at 23:32

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '15 at 23:35

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Stick your fonts in the folder public/fonts.

And then do something like this:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'BebasNeueRegular';
  src: url('/fonts/BebasNeue-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
}

answered Sep 24 '15 at 23:35

Eliezer Steinbock

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Interesting. Do you have any insight in to why this happens? Thank you – Damien Wilson Nov 10 '15 at 18:50
`public` is where Meteor will search for assets. Does that help? – Eliezer Steinbock Nov 11 '15 at 13:07
there is no public folder in meteor anymore. – puppeteer701 Mar 06 '16 at 17:02
The question only relates to the .woff2 file. – JoeTidee Mar 28 '16 at 23:33
There is still a public folder in Meteor. Create it at the root level of your project. And @JoePrivett the same answer applies to .woff2 format. – Eliezer Steinbock Mar 31 '16 at 16:12
What if the CSS is part of a package (whereby the CSS file cannot be placed in the public folder)? – JoeTidee Mar 31 '16 at 21:20
The package should handle it. If you're writing the package, I think you use addAssets in the package.json file. – Eliezer Steinbock Mar 31 '16 at 21:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 13:00

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After trying lots of other approaches, and lots of re-installs and checking within meteor and npm configurations, I have just fixed the issue by clearing out browsing data from Chrome (cached images and files) and then refreshing the page.

answered Mar 14 '17 at 13:00

Andy Lorenz

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Failed to decode downloaded font in Meteor

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