Searching the web, I find heaps of different suggestions for what the proper MIME type for a font is, but I have yet to try any MIME type that rids me of a Chrome warning such as the following:
Resource interpreted as font but transferred with MIME type font/otf
The font is an OTF.
I've tried the following MIME types so far
Try using "font/opentype".
Since Feb 2017 RFC 8081 groups all MIME types for fonts under the top level font media type. The older MIME types from my original posting are now listed as deprecated.
Font types as listed by IANA are now:
.otf -> font/otf.sfnt -> font/sfnt.ttf -> font/ttf.woff -> font/woff.woff2 -> font/woff2Other non-standard font formats are left as are:
.eot -> application/vnd.ms-fontobject (as from December 2005).svg -> image/svg+xml (as from August 2011)[Outdated Original Post]
As there's still a lot of confusion on the web about MIME types for web fonts, I thought I'd give a current answer, complete with effective dates, and supporting links to IANA and the W3C.
Here are the official MIME types for Web Fonts:
.eot -> application/vnd.ms-fontobject (as from December 2005).otf -> application/font-sfnt (as from March 2013).svg -> image/svg+xml (as from August 2011).ttf -> application/font-sfnt (as from March 2013).woff -> application/font-woff (as from January 2013).woff2 -> font/woff2 (proposed by W3C in March 2016)Note there is a movement to change all the above to MIME types of font/XXX, as backed by the W3C in its proposal for WOFF v2. This is being tracked by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) under The font Top Level Type and in February 2017 was approved RFC status (see RFC 8081) so it may all change yet!
While on the topic of web servers, it's worth mentioning that HTTP responses may gzip (or otherwise compress) all the above font formats except .woff & .woff2 which are already heavily compressed.
I say more in MIME Types for Web Fonts with (Fantom) BedSheet.
application/font-woff for woff: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/font-woff
Ignore the chrome warning. There is no standard MIME type for OTF fonts.
font/opentype may silence the warning, but that doesn't make it the "right" thing to do.
Arguably, you're better off making one up, e.g. with "application/x-opentype" because at least "application" is a registered content type, while "font" is not.
Update: OTF remains a problem, but WOFF grew an IANA MIME type of application/font-woff in January 2013.
Update 2: OTF has grown a MIME type: application/font-sfnt In March 2013. This type also applies to .ttf
As a specific instance of one of the two hard things in computing, it’s interesting to see how the answers to this question have changed since this question was originally posted. Thankfully, the powers that be have brought order to the chaos:
In February this year (2017), the W3C published the Standards Track RFC 8081: The "font" Top-Level Media Type which greatly simplifies the appropriate media types for font files:
This memo serves to register and document the "font" top-level media type, under which subtypes for representation formats for fonts may be registered. This document also serves as a registration application for a set of intended subtypes, which are representative of some existing subtypes already in use, and currently registered under the "application" tree by their separate registrations.
It’s quite a readable document and it describes the historical context (lack of “a registration of formats for font”) which gave rise to the confusing mix of media types and sub-types. With the (relatively) recent rise in popularity of downloadable web fonts, the W3C recognised the need for an “intuitive top-level font type”. What they came up with is … font.
Accordingly, the IANA have since updated their official list of Media types with the font media type and all its sub-types that they currently recognise:
collection font/collection
otf font/otf
sfnt font/sfnt
ttf font/ttf
woff font/woff
woff2 font/woff2
Here’s hoping this is the last answer this question needs.
As from March 2013 IANA.ORG recommends for .otf:
application/font-sfnt
Other fonts:
.eot -> application/vnd.ms-fontobject (as from December 2005)
.otf -> application/font-sfnt (as from March 2013)
.svg -> image/svg+xml (as from August 2011)
.ttf -> application/font-sfnt (as from March 2013)
.woff -> application/font-woff (as from January 2013)
See more...
Here is NGINX solution
file
/usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types
add
font/ttf ttf;
font/opentype otf;
application/font-woff woff2;
application/font-woff woff;
application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;
remove
application/octet-stream eot;
Thanks to Mike Fulcher
FWIW regarding Apache 2.2 VirtualHosting and mod_mime tested on Debian Linux and OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard:
If you have a VirtualHost configuration you will want to add the types via the AddType Directive as follows at least at the bottom of the configuration as follows:
....
AddType font/opentype .otf
AddType font/ttf .ttf
</VirtualHost>
Tested against Chrome Unstable/Trunk and Safari WebKit Nightly which eliminates the mime octet-stream warnings for both the ttf and otf font types.
Note: .htaccess has zero effect when dealing with VirtualHosting. If you're developing for several sites you'll be using VirtualHosting development and each configuration will need these AddType additions.
As of February 2017, RFC 8081 adds font/* media types, which are also listed in the IANA Media Types list. font/otf is in this list.
Maybe this will help someone. I saw that on IIS 7 .ttf is already a known mime-type. It's configured as:
application/octet-stream
So I just added that for all the CSS font types (.oet, .svg, .ttf, .woff) and IIS started serving them. Chrome dev tools also do not complain about re-interpreting the type.
Cheers, Michael
I just did some research on IANA official list. I believe the answer given here 'font/xxx' is incorrect as there is no 'font' type in the MIME standard.
Based on the RFCs and IANA, this appears to be the current state of the play as at May 2013:
These three are official and assigned by IANA:
These are not not official/assigned, and so must use the 'x-' syntax:
The application/font-woff appears new and maybe only official since Jan 2013. So "application/x-font-woff" might be safer/more compatible in the short term.
There are a number of font formats that one can set MIME types for, on both Apache and IIS servers. I've traditionally had luck with the following:
svg as "image/svg+xml" (W3C: August 2011)
ttf as "application/x-font-ttf" (IANA: March 2013)
or "application/x-font-truetype"
otf as "application/x-font-opentype" (IANA: March 2013)
woff as "application/font-woff" (IANA: January 2013)
woff2 as "application/font-woff2" (W3C W./E.Draft: May 2014/March 2016)
eot as "application/vnd.ms-fontobject" (IANA: December 2005)
sfnt as "application/font-sfnt" (IANA: March 2013)
According to the Internet Engineering Task Force who maintain the initial document regarding Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME types) here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#section-5 ... it says in specifics:
"It is expected that additions to the larger set of supported types can generally be accomplished by the creation of new subtypes of these initial types. In the future, more top-level types may be defined only by a standards-track extension to this standard. If another top-level type is to be used for any reason, it must be given a name starting with "X-" to indicate its non-standard status and to avoid a potential conflict with a future official name."
As it were, and over time, additional MIME types get added as standards are created and accepted, therefor we see examples of vendor specific MIME types such as vnd.ms-fontobject and the like.
UPDATE August 16, 2013: WOFF was formally registered at IANA on January 3, 2013 and Webkit has been updated on March 5, 2013 and browsers that are sourcing this update in their latest versions will start issuing warnings about the server MIME types with the old x-font-woff declaration. Since the warnings are only annoying I would recommend switching to the approved MIME type right away. In an ideal world, the warnings will resolve themselves in time.
UPDATE February 26, 2015: WOFF2 is now in the W3C Editor's Draft with the proposed mime-type. It should likely be submitted to IANA in the next year (possibly by end of 2016) following more recent progress timelines. As well SFNT, the scalable/spline container font format used in the backbone table reference of Google Web Fonts with their sfntly java library and is already registered as a mime type with IANA and could be added to this list as well dependent on individual need.
UPDATE October 4, 2017: We can follow the progression of the WOFF2 format here with a majority of modern browsers supporting the format successfully. As well, we can follow the IETF's "font" Top-Level Media Type request for comments (RFC) tracker and document regarding the latest set of proposed font types for approval.
For those wishing to embed the typeface in the proper order in your CSS please visit this article. But again, I've had luck with the following order:
@font-face {
font-family: 'my-web-font';
src: url('webfont.eot');
src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('webfont.svg#webfont') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
For Subversion auto-properties, these can be listed as:
# Font formats
svg = svn:mime-type=image/svg+xml
ttf = svn:mime-type=application/x-font-ttf
otf = svn:mime-type=application/x-font-opentype
woff = svn:mime-type=application/font-woff
woff2 = svn:mime-type=application/font-woff2
eot = svn:mime-type=application/vnd.ms-fontobject
sfnt = svn:mime-type=application/font-sfnt
One way to silence this warning from Chrome would be to update Chrome and then make sure your mime type is one of these:
"font/ttf"
"font/opentype"
"application/font-woff"
"application/x-font-type1"
"application/x-font-ttf"
"application/x-truetype-font"
This list is per the patch found at Bug 111418 at webkit.org.
The same patch demotes the message from a "Warning" to a "Log", so just upgrading Chrome to any post March-2013 version would get rid of the yellow triangle.
Since the question is about silencing a Chrome warning, and folks might be holding on to old Chrome versions for whatever reasons, I figured this was worth adding.
The following can be used in the eBook space:
application/vnd.ms-opentype
I would imagine that it is the same for the web.
Source: Stackoverflow.com