Google Fonts is Google's free database of fonts. The incredible selection brings different styles of text and numerals, always with full compatibility for application in WordPress. The platform is easy to access and the search is optimized.
Choosing good sources for the written content of a website is a task based on more than the decision for something beautiful and readable. Different styles bring specific perceptions, highlighting or transmitting a conceptual idea to those who access the site. For this reason, those who usually manage projects on WordPress need to know how to use Google Fonts.
The page, with simple access, navigation and choice of fonts, allows a user to choose different types of letters, considering some characteristics, from the different categories to the graphic styles of the fonts.
The most interesting thing is to be able to use each of these options freely on WordPress sites, making the installation in a simple and fast process.
In this post you check out the following topics:
What is Google Fonts?
How to navigate the site?
Why use Google Fonts?
How to use Google Fonts?
How to navigate the site?
Google Fonts is a fundamental site for anyone working to create a website or blog on WordPress (either on their own or through the Rock Stage), as it offers free fonts in a large and diverse database.
Right when accessing the home of this platform, you can see that the idea is to offer something easy, since the design of the website is totally minimalist, focusing on directing the user to the search for the font.
At first, the home shows the top search settings bar and, across the page, all the sources available in the database appear, with examples of how they look.
To view each one, simply scroll down the page, if this is your favorite search method.
The search for scrolling the page can be an option for those who do not have in mind what they expect from the source. Still, it is a much more time-consuming way of searching.
A more optimized and precise option is the use of the upper bar, as it helps to filter the characteristics sought for the ideal source.
Its use is very simple, since it never disappears from the screen, even if the user scrolls down and continues to view the font offer.
When accessing the home, the user can identify six main options in the top bar:
search bar where the name of the source can be inserted to find it quickly;
option for selecting examples where the user chooses between numeral, phrase, alphabet or paragraph. Thus, each font that appears on the home screen, or the one that is chosen, will be presented within each of those selections that were previously chosen;
option to select, in pixels, the size of the font display on the screen;
paint bucket icon, which allows you to select the page background, which is ideal for testing the application on different background colors, simulating the website where the font will be used;
option to change the display of the source to the list;
reset button to return to the initial filter defaults.
It is important to point out that the display on your screen is a choice defined by Google in the default configuration, which is the source of the currently hot sources.