{"id":123594,"date":"2013-11-24T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=123594"},"modified":"2013-11-22T01:14:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T06:14:26","slug":"how-to-make-your-wordpress-site-good-lookin-with-google-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-make-your-wordpress-site-good-lookin-with-google-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Your WordPress Site Good Lookin’ With Google Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that’s the claim that Google itself makes and whilst it might not turn every ugly duckling into a swan, a good font can make a significant improvement.<\/p>\n

Google has hundreds of free, open-source, web-ready fonts that you can use to give your WordPress site an instant facelift.<\/p>\n

In this WordPress Weekend Project, I’ll show you a quick and easy way to install Google fonts and transform your site’s text.<\/p>\n

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About Google Fonts<\/h2>\n

There are currently 629 Google Fonts, which means that it will actually take far longer for you to choose a font then it will to actually implement it on your WordPress site.<\/p>\n

The fonts are tied into the CSS for your site and are downloaded from Google as part of the webpage, which does give rise to the possibility of some lag time on the initial download – you may have experienced this on some sites as the text suddenly changes font.<\/p>\n

However, after the initial download, the font is cached in the browser removing the lag for subsequent pages.<\/p>\n

Browser compatibility is good:<\/p>\n