Can I use fonts from the Google Fonts catalog on any page?
- Next, you'll apply these fonts to specific CSS selectors on your HubSpot stylesheet using the CSS rules to specify families from Google Fonts. Add Google Font to your HubSpot pages. In your HubSpot account, locate the stylesheet applied to your pages and open the file in your design manager. Paste the @import code onto the first line of your.
- How to Import Google Fonts in CSS File. An essential part of any design is the chosen font. Google Fonts is a free service of web fonts that allows us to use a large variety of fonts in our CSS file. In this snippet, you'll find two ways of importing Google Fonts.
- Aug 29, 2018 Google Fonts. Google Fonts is a library of over 800 different typefaces, completely ready to be embedded in your web project. This series looks at what Google Fonts is, and shares interesting examples and combinations of fonts that can take your project to the next level. Read the Feature → Feature Google Fonts.
How to use Google fonts in CSS? It is an important aspect of any web design to choose the right font for the webpage. The use of Google fonts is advantageous because we get elegant fonts for our website. The Google fonts API makes it easier and quicker for everyone to use web-fonts. These fonts have been tested on various browser configurations.
Yes. The open source fonts in the Google Fonts catalog are published under licenses that allow you to use them on any website, whether it’s commercial or personal.
Search queries may surface results from external foundries, who may or may not use open source licenses.
Search queries may surface results from external foundries, who may or may not use open source licenses.
Should I host fonts on my own website’s server?
We recommend copying the code snippets available under the 'Embed' tab in the selection drawer directly into your website’s HTML and CSS. Read more about the performance benefits this will have in the “Will web fonts slow down my page?” section below.
Can I download the fonts on Google Fonts to my own computer?
Yes. To download fonts, simply create a selection of fonts, open the drawer at the bottom of the screen, then click the 'Download' icon in the upper-right corner of the selection drawer. You can download the fonts to use in mock-ups, documents, or locally on your machine.
Note that when browsers render websites that use the Google Fonts API, they will check if a font is installed locally on your computer, and prefer to use the local version over web fonts. To make sure the fonts installed locally on your personal computer are always up-to-date, we recommend using a fonts manager (such as SkyFonts) that automatically syncs the latest versions of fonts from the Google Fonts API to your computer.
I am a type designer. How can I contribute to Google Fonts?
Google Fonts collaborates with type designers, foundries, and the design community worldwide.
If you’re a type designer interested in open source font development or if your fonts are not open source, but you would like to opt-in to include your fonts in our search results, please get in touch via GitHub.
Which fonts can I use with the Google Fonts API?
The Google Fonts API can serve the fonts listed in the Google Fonts Catalog. Use the directory to preview the fonts and read about the designers who created them.
Should I request all of the fonts on Google Fonts on each of my pages, just in case?
No. Each font requested takes some time to download (if it's not already in the visitor's cache); only request the fonts that you're using on a given page.
Will web fonts slow down my page?
Web fonts are likely to enhance the performance, maintainability, and accessibility of your page.
Like any other asset, font files have to be downloaded to a site visitor's computer before they can be displayed. Fonts served by the Google Fonts API are automatically compressed for a faster download, and once downloaded are cached in the browser and reused by any other web page that uses the Google Fonts API.
As the Google Fonts API becomes more widely used, it is likely visitors to your site or page will already have any Google fonts used in your design in their browser cache.
In general, you should be aware of the size of the font files you are serving on your site or page. We recommend embedding only the families, styles, and scripts needed. The page load time indicator, located in the upper-right of the selection drawer, shows an estimation of how your selection will affect the overall load time (ex: slow, moderate, fast) of your page based on the number of families, styles, and scripts you’ve chosen in the “Customize” tab.
Learn more about how Google Fonts makes the web faster.
What does using the Google Fonts API mean for the privacy of my users?
The Google Fonts API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of end-user data to what is needed to serve fonts efficiently.
Use of Google Fonts is unauthenticated. No cookies are sent by website visitors to the Google Fonts API. Requests to the Google Fonts API are made to resource-specific domains, such as fonts.googleapis.com or fonts.gstatic.com, so that your requests for fonts are separate from and do not contain any credentials you send to google.com while using other Google services that are authenticated, such as Gmail.
In order to serve fonts quickly and efficiently with the fewest requests, responses are cached by the browser to minimize round-trips to our servers.
Requests for CSS assets are cached for 1 day. This allows us to update a stylesheet to point to a new version of a font file when it’s updated, and ensures that all websites using fonts hosted by the Google Fonts API will be using the most updated version of each font within 24 hours of each release.
The font files themselves are cached for one year, which cumulatively has the effect of making the entire web faster: When millions of websites all link to the same fonts, they are cached after visiting the first website and appear instantly on all other subsequently visited sites. We do sometimes update font files to reduce their file size, increase coverage of languages, and improve the quality of their design. The result is that website visitors send very few requests to Google: We only see 1 CSS request per font family, per day, per browser.
Google Fonts logs records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is kept secure. Aggregate usage numbers track how popular font families are, and are published on our analytics page. We use data from Google’s web crawler to detect which websites use Google fonts. This data is published and accessible in the Google Fonts BigQuery database. To learn more about the information Google collects and how it is used and secured, see Google's Privacy Policy.
How is text displayed while the browser is still loading the font file?
Behavior varies depending on browser type. Some browsers will only display text after font files are loaded, while others will use the fallback font from the font stack and then refresh the page when the font is available. The latter behavior is generally referred to as the 'flash of unstyled text,' or FOUT. For browser details, see the Technical Considerations page.
Can I use CSS3 features like text shadows in combination with web fonts?
Absolutely. CSS3 offers a range of features that can be applied to text on the web. Because text displayed using web fonts is still just text, it works well with CSS features like text-shadow and rotation.
Which browsers are supported?
The Google Fonts API is compatible with the following browsers:
- Google Chrome: version 4.249.4+
- Mozilla Firefox: version: 3.5+
- Apple Safari: version 3.1+
- Opera: version 10.5+
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6+
Does the Google Fonts API work on mobile devices?
The Google Fonts API works reliably on the vast majority of modern mobile operating systems, including Android 2.2+ and iOS 4.2+ (iPhone, iPad, iPod).
Support for earlier iOS versions is limited.
What do unsupported browsers see?
If someone using an unsupported browser visits a page that uses the Google Fonts API, the text is displayed using the next available font in your CSS font stack.
In the following example, the text would be displayed in the unsupported browser's default cursive font:
What generic fallback fonts are available?
CSS defines a set of generic font families; you can list a generic family at the end of a font stack, for browsers to fall back to. Each browser has a default font that it uses for each of these generic fonts.
Serif
A font with serifs.Google Fonts Css Link
Sans-serif
A font without serifs.Cursive
A font that has joined strokes that make it look at least somewhat like handwriting.Fantasy
A decorative font (but focused on characters rather than on icons or pictures).Monospace
A font in which every character is the same width. Meta 1964 lab coat.Google Fonts now fully supports variable fonts in the v2 API update. We’llexplain how to call both single and multiple font families and how to specifyaxes ranges. For an in-depth look into variable fonts, learn more with thisinteractively illustrated brochurefrom David Berlow at TypeNetwork.
What’s new
It all starts with a new base URL:
The syntax for specifying styles within each family has changed to describevariable font ‘design spaces.’
Quickstart guides
Copy and paste this HTML into a file:
Using a browser to open the file, the page should render the text, “Making theWeb Beautiful”, in the Crimson Pro font.
Multiple families
To request multiple families, specify the
family=
param for each family.For example, to request the fontsCrimson Pro andLiterata:
Copy and paste this HTML into a file:
Using a browser to open the file, the page should render the text, “Making the Web Beautiful”, first in Crimson Pro then in Literata.
Making the Web Beautiful!
Axis ranges
Variable fonts offer continuous ranges of styles, often without additionallatency. This is relevant to responsive design.This dynamic typography uses continuous ranges of styles, offering all theweights between 100 and 900 on a page, and responsively varying the weightbased on some conditions.
To request a range of a variable font axis, join the 2 values with
.
Font(s) | Request |
---|---|
Crimson Pro [wght 200-900] | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:[email protected] |
Crimson Pro Italic [wght 200-900] | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:ital,wght@1,200.900 |
Crimson Pro Bold Italic & [wght 200-900] | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:ital,wght@0,200.900;1,700 |
Your browser does not appear to support variable fonts (caniuse).On a browser that does support font variations, the following text should renderCrimson Pro as a smooth set of weights from 400 to 500. CSS animations can makethe text smoothly vary the style on interaction.
If your browser fully supports variable fonts (caniuse),then the following text should render Crimson Pro as a smooth set of weights from400 to 500. CSS animations can make the text smoothly vary the style on interaction.
Making the Web Beautiful!
Making the Web Beautiful!
Making the Web Beautiful!
Individual styles, such as weight
Without style specifications, the API provides the default style of therequested family. To request other individual styles, such as specific weights,append a colon (:) after the name of the font family, followed by a list of axisproperty keywords in alphabetical order, an at sign (@), and one or more listsof values for those axis properties.
These examples show this in action.
Font(s) | Request |
---|---|
Crimson Pro (default) | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro |
Crimson Pro Bold | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:wght@700 |
Crimson Pro Regular & Bold | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:wght@400;700 |
Crimson Pro Bold & Bold Italic | https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Crimson+Pro:ital,wght@0,700;1,700 |
Google Fonts lists all the styles available for each font family.
Default style
When a request doesn’t specify a position or range for an axis, the defaultposition will be used. The default position of the italic axis is 0 (normal) andthe default for the weight axis is 400 (regular).
For families with axes that don’t contain the default position, requests that donot specify positions for those axes will fail. For example, when requesting afamily with a weight axis ranging from 500 to 900, the weight position must bespecified.
Non-standard weights
With static fonts, styles of weight are usually specified as multiples of 100(e.g. 300, 400, 700). Variable fonts offer both the standard weights andintermediate weights. To render an intermediate weight:
Your browser does not appear to support variable fonts (caniuse). On a browser that does support font variations, the following text should render Crimson Pro at visually distinct weights of 400, 450, and 500.
If your browser fully supports variable fonts (caniuse), the following text should render Crimson Pro at visually distinct weights of 400, 450, and 500.
Google Fonts Css W3schools
Making the Web Beautiful!
Optimizing for latency and file size
Be precise about the styles you are using. The API delivers the requested stylesin the most compact set of fonts. Requesting unused styles may cause your usersto download more font data than they need, causing more latency. If you use only3 specific weights, specify them in your request as individual styles. If youuse a continuous range of weights, specify that weight range in your request.
Use font-display
The font-displayproperty lets you control what happens while the font is still loading orotherwise unavailable. Specifying a value other than the default
auto
isusually appropriate.Pass the desired value in the
display
parameter:Optimizing your font requests
Oftentimes, when you want to use a web font on your site or application, youknow in advance which letters you'll need. This often occurs when you're using aweb font in a logo or heading.
In these cases, you should consider specifying a
text=
value in your fontrequest URL. This allows Google Fonts to return a font file that's optimized foryour request. In some cases, this can reduce the size of the font file by up to90%.To use this feature, simply add
text=
to your API request. For example, ifyou're only using Inconsolata for the title of your blog, you can put the titleitself as the value of text=
. Here’s what the request would look like:As with all query strings, you should URL-encode the value:
This feature also works for international fonts, allowing you to specify UTF-8characters. For example, ¡Hola! is represented as:
Forming API URLs
Strictness
As a general note, the updated CSS API is more strict about what requests areaccepted than the original CSS API.
General guidelines:
- List axes alphabetically
- Axis value groups (i.e. tuples) need to be sorted numerically
- Tuples can’t overlap or touch (e.g. wght 400.500 and 500.600)
API URL Specification
/css2?family=<spec>[&family=<spec>..][&text=<text>][&display=<display>]
spec
: <family_name>[:<axis_tag_list>@<axis_tuple_list>]
family_name
: Name of the font familyaxis_tag_list
: <axis>[,<axis>..] // Sorted alphabetically
axis
: An axis tag, e.g. ital
, wdth
, wght
axis_tuple_list
: <axis_tuple>[;<axis_tuple>..]
axis_tuple
: <value>[,<value>..] // Same length as axis_tag_list
value
: <range>
| <float>
range
: <float>.<float>
float
: A value within the range of the corresponding axistext
: The text that will be displayed in the requested typefacedisplay
: auto
| block
| swap
| fallback
| optional
Legacy browser support
Browsers without variable font support may not be able to display your design asintended. Check browsers’ variable font support on caniuse.
By practicing progressive enhancement,you can avoid unexpected behavior in those older browsers. Use
@supports
queries in your CSS to gate variable font features.In this example, we'd like to use weight 450 of Markazi Text, but will have tofall back to either Regular (weight 400) or Medium (weight 500) when variablefont features aren't supported:
The CSS request
Markazi+Text:wght@450
sends weight 450 to clients that supportvariable fonts and weights 400 and 500 to those that don’t. In general, thefallbacks around the range of your request will be available in legacy browsers.Axis | Fallbacks |
---|---|
ital | 0, 1 |
wght | 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 |
How To Use Google Fonts Css
These examples show what styles would be available on legacy browsers for a fewdifferent requests.
Request | Styles available on legacy browsers |
---|---|
ital@0 | ital@0 |
wght@500 | wght@500 |
wght@432 | wght@400;500 |
[email protected] | wght@400;500;600 |
Available variable fonts
A table of the variable fonts available in the v2 API can be found here.
Further reading
- See a complete list of font families provided by the Google Fonts API onGoogle Fonts.
- Learn more about how the Google Fonts API works on theTechnical Considerations page.