![]() ![]() At least, that’s why I think they did it but it’s also just pretty. They even set up a button to change the background color of the page allowing you to get an idea of the fonts in different backgrounds. ![]() The Google Fonts site has been redesigned and it’s quite pleasant to work with. So let’s have a look at how to use Google Fonts on your website. Now it’s even harder to justify paying for TypeKit when Google has done such a great job. With time, the Google Font library has also grown. TypeKit still has nicer fonts and a wider variety, but you can’t beat free when you’re on a budget. So along came Google and took a paid service and made it free. Spending more than $100 a year on just fonts was something you really had to think about if you were on a budget. For one site, it wasn’t too bad but if you had more than one site it was cost prohibitive. The only downside to TypeKit was the cost. For a typographical nerd like me, it was actually fun to browse through all the font styles. You went in, picked a couple of fonts, grabbed their code and served the fonts on your site. This made certain sites stand out because they weren’t using the same boring fonts you found across the web. ![]() For an annual price, you could choose fonts to serve on your website. The most popular and my favorite was TypeKit. Then it got exciting! web font services started popping up. Unfortunately, because of font licensing, embedding fonts into a web page wasn’t a great solution. This was a way to serve up fonts to a web page. When CSS3 came along, a few solutions started to spring up. Not only were the fonts not so great but there weren’t many of them either. It was pretty frustrating to design this way. Before we talk about how to use Google Fonts, let’s talk about why you should even use Google Fonts.Ī while back when the web wasn’t as awesome as it is today, designers were limited to the not-so-pretty standard fonts found in most computers. ![]()
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