I am trying to create an SVG image logo with simple graphic and only a couple of words of company name using non-standard font. To conserve the size I decided to embed only glyph's that needed for the words, instead of referring to the entire font. But the text is not shown using the custom (embedded) font. So I found a very similar example on the "most important website" - W3.org and to my surprise their example also doesn't work in most modern browsers.
Here's the link to the official SVG definition article with the example: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/fonts.html
And here's the link to the SVG example file in question: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/examples/font01.svg
Here's the code from the file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg version="1.2" baseProfile="tiny" viewBox="0 0 160 70"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<title>Font example</title>
<defs>
<font horiz-adv-x="313" xml:id="la">
<metadata>Converted from Larabie Anglepoise by Batik ttf2svg
See http://www.larabiefonts.com/ </metadata>
<font-face font-family="larabie-anglepoise" units-per-em="1000"
panose-1="0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0" ascent="703" descent="-300" alphabetic="0"/>
<missing-glyph horiz-adv-x="500" d="M63 0V700H438V0H63ZM125 63H375V638H125V63Z"/>
<glyph unicode="S" glyph-name="S" horiz-adv-x="385" d="M371 1H29V144H264Q264 151
264 166Q265 180 265 188Q265 212 249 212H132Q83 212 55 247Q29 279 29
329V566H335V422H136V375Q136 360 144 356Q148 355 168 355H279Q327 355 352
309Q371 273 371 221V1Z"/>
<glyph unicode="V" glyph-name="V" horiz-adv-x="351" d="M365 563L183 -33L0
563H101L183 296L270 563H365Z"/>
<glyph unicode="G" glyph-name="G" horiz-adv-x="367" d="M355
1H18V564H355V420H125V144H248V211H156V355H355V1Z"/>
<hkern g1="V" g2="G" k="-40"/>
</font>
</defs>
<text x="40" y="50" font-family="larabie-anglepoise" font-size="70"
fill="#933">SVG</text>
<rect x="00" y="00" width="160" height="70" stroke="#777" fill="none"/>
</svg>
It doesn't work, meaning the image is rendered, but with the wrong font, in:
- Chrome v. 55.0.2883.87
- Firefox v. 47.0.2
- Internet Explorer v. 10.0.9200
- Opera v. 42.0
- Vivaldi v. 1.2.490.43
However the sample image renders properly in older browsers:
- Opera v. 12.17
- Safari v. 5.1.4
- Maxthon v. 4.4.5.3000
What's going on? Please advice how can I reliably create SVG image with embedded font, without referring to the external files using CSS.