php - Where do I place custom fonts in Laravel 5?

Question

Complete beginner to Laravel 5 and trying to import custom fonts using this code in my header:

<style>
@font-face {
    font-family: 'Conv_OptimusPrinceps';
    src: url('fonts/OptimusPrinceps.eot');
    src: local('?'), url('fonts/OptimusPrinceps.woff') format('woff'), url('fonts/OptimusPrinceps.ttf') format('truetype'), url('fonts/OptimusPrinceps.svg') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

and calling it in my variables.scss. Currently my fonts are stored in my public directory:

public/fonts/OptimusPrinceps.woff
public/fonts/OptimusPrinceps.tff 
etc.

For some reason this warning appears in my dev tools

Failed to decode downloaded font: http://localhost:3000/fonts/OptimusPrinceps.tff
OTS parsing error: invalid version tag

And my font doesn't load correctly.

Answer 1

Place anything that the client browser should access into /public/. You can use the Laravel helper function public_path to build full URLs for it.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/helpers#method-public-path

For instance, if you put your font in /public/fonts/OptimusPrinceps.tff (which you've done), you can access it one of two ways.

In Blade:

<style type="text/css">
@font-face {
    font-family: OptimusPrinceps;
    src: url('{{ public_path('fonts/OptimusPrinceps.tff') }}');
}
</style>

In CSS includes:

@font-face {
    font-family: OptimusPrinceps;
    src: url('/fonts/OptimusPrinceps.tff');
}

In the second example, you don't need any Laravel magic, really. Just reference the path absolutely so that it points to the correct directory.

Worth noting that this works with Bootstrap and SCSS. I usually put fonts in /public/static/fonts/.