How web designers use Google online fonts

To make web design more flexible, Google launched the online font service from May 19, 2010, and released 18 font families at a breath. But unlike the Monotype Web Fonts, fontshop and other font vendors, Google this open font, like many other services, is completely free

At present, the font used on the Web page is a few common, such as ' Lucida Grande ', Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif, Chinese common in the song body.

It's a hassle to use a more personalized font, because you can't guarantee that the client supports the font, and the usual way is to use Photoshop to make the text into pictures.

To make web design more flexible, Google launched the online font service from May 19, 2010, and released 18 font families at a breath. But unlike the Monotype Web Fonts, FontShop, and other fonts, Google's open font, like many other services, is completely free.

Google currently offers a total of 18 fonts, all of which are currently popular free fonts, including the Droid series developed for Android, known as the "Fonts for Scholars" Cardo, designed for code printing Inconsolata, Amateur work rather than shin Yanone Kaffeesatz and so on, one of the most noticeable is the font division John Fell Design of the IM Fell font.

I think every web designer would think that this is good news, another gospel from Google!

Do you want to use them? Using these fonts requires no fee or registration, just a few simple steps, for example, if you want to use the font "Tangerine" in your Web page:

1. Add code to the head of the page

<link rel= "stylesheet" type= "Text/css" href= "http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine" >

2. Add in your CSS style sheet

Body { font-family: ' Tangerine ', serif; font-size:48px; }

(Note: This is to make the font of all elements of the page into Tangerine, if only the local tangerine font as long as you change the CSS selector on it!) ）

3. Refresh View effect!

Okay, is it easy?

To find out more about Google's online fonts, please go to the official homepage http://code.google.com/webfonts

Detailed use Method http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/getting_started.html