How to add fonts to a nuxt app

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to add custom fonts to a nuxt app that is created using create-nuxt-app.

Adding local fonts

1. Open the nuxt app in your favorite code editor.

2. Download the fonts locally and place them inside the assets folder.

3. Create a new file called global.css inside the layouts folder and include the downloaded font by referencing the path.

@font-face {
    font-family: "Oxygen";
    src: local("Oxygen"),     url(~assets/Oxygen/Oxygen-Regular.ttf) format("truetype");}

html {
    font-family: "Oxygen";
}

In the above code, I have added an Oxygen font.

4. Navigate to the nuxt.config.js file and add the global.css file inside the css array.

css: [
    "~layouts/global.css",
],

5. Now, this font is used by all pages in our nuxt app.

Adding Google fonts

We can also use google fonts (API) instead of local fonts by adding it to the link array inside our nuxt.config.js file.

export default {
  head: {
    link: [
      { rel: "icon", type: "image/x-icon", href: "/favicon.ico" },
      {        rel: "stylesheet",        href: "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Oxygen&display=swap",      },    ],
  },
}

Now, you can use this font inside your nuxt pages like this.

<style>
html {
   font-family: "Oxygen";
}
</style>

or you can include it to all pages, by adding it to the layouts/default.vue file.

<style>
html {
  font-family: "Oxygen";
}
</style>