CSS TutorialLesson #51

Font Google

If you do not want to use any of the standard fonts in HTML, you can use Google Fonts.

Google Fonts

If you do not want to use any of the standard fonts in HTML, you can use Google Fonts.

Google Fonts are free to use, and have more than 1000 fonts to choose from.


How To Use Google Fonts

Just add a special style sheet link in the <head> section and then refer to the font in the CSS.

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Note: When specifying a font in CSS, always list at minimum one fallback font (to avoid unexpected behaviors). So, also here you should add a generic font family (like serif or sans-serif) to the end of the list.

For a list of all available Google Fonts, visit our How To - Google Fonts Tutorial.


Use Multiple Google Fonts

To use multiple Google fonts, just separate the font names with a pipe character (|), like this:

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Note: Requesting multiple fonts may slow down your web pages! So be careful about that.


Styling Google Fonts

Of course you can style Google Fonts as you like, with CSS!

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Enabling Font Effects

Google has also enabled different font effects that you can use.

First add effect=effectname to the Google API, then add a special class name to the element that is going to use the special effect. The class name always starts with font-effect- and ends with the effectname.

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To request multiple font effects, just separate the effect names with a pipe character (|), like this:

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