A friend of mine asked for a straightforward example about how to use a custom font in Django. Here it is ; )

In a Python 3 (virtual) environment:

$ pip install Django==2.2

Simply follow Django's default:

$ python manage.py runserver

This repo contains only 3 commits. Here is a summary of what they do.

This install Django and sets a home page at the root of the server that just renders core/templates/core/index.html.

Runnning the server and opening the home page you should see a heading with your browser's custom font.

This makes the basic setup for Django to handle and serve static files. In order to test it to see if works, it applies a custom font on h1 HTML tags.

Runnning the server and opening the home page you should see the heading with a sans-serif font.

This commit uses Django ITC Std's .otf file to load a custom font and applies it to h1 HTML tags.

Runnning the server and opening the home page you should see the heading with this sample custom font.