How do I use custom fonts for labelling in Geoserver?

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I want to use a custom font I have downloaded from the web with Geoserver for my labels. How do I specify the location of my font so that the font-family css parameter can read it?

Geoserver 2.1.4

oskarlin · Accepted Answer

You put your custom TTF-fonts in the catalog styles which are located in your data directory.

Then you need to Clear Resource Cache under Server Status so that the font will be loaded by the server!

This is a new functionality from 2.1.x.

lomasz · Answer

Puting my font files (*.ttf) to (...)/geoserver/data/styles still works in version 2.6?
I put files there, cleared resources cache and in full list of available fonts they don't exist.

Franka · Answer

Moving the ttf's into the data_dir of GeoServer didn't work out for me, too. So, I simply put them into C:/Windows/Fonts, cleared the ressource cache and voilà! Now they are available on GeoServer.

My environment: Windows Server 2008 R2 with GeoServer 2.10.1.

How do I use custom fonts for labelling in Geoserver?

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