# Using @font-face override in theme

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**Created:** [April 18, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/using-font-face-override-in-theme/1711 "2018-04-18T01:14:47Z")\
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As a complete Jekyll noob, I am not sure if this is the “official” way to do this but it works.

I wanted to use a custom font in the Minima theme. The [customization instructions here](https://github.com/jekyll/minima), while really good, don’t directly cover doing that.

So:

1. Create an assets/fonts folder and copy your font files in there. If you want more than one font, create a sub folder for each one.

2. Create an assets/main.scss file with the following (note the front matter dashes):

Just change to your font name and hopefully it will work for you too.

Cheers,  
Murray