Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Google Fonts (Also Known As: The Best Thing Ever)

Fonts are weird. No normal person thinks about them until they see a really bad or out of place one (cough Comic Sans end cough). Our overlord, Google, is kind enough to absolve us of this pain by giving Google Fonts! Like the millions of Google sub projects, it lets people do stuff. To be more specific, that stuff is change fonts on websites to make it not suck. Now what constitutes a bad font? Well, it's something that's generally out of place, hard to read, or has become so overused that it has become a sign of an unexperienced web designer. Sure, even fonts that are hard to read have their uses I suppose. Anymore the use of Comic Sans or Times New Roman have fallen from their once okay-I-guess status due to over saturation. Now! We have the ability to use fonts that don't suck! Google Fonts has over 700 fonts (some of which might be crappy, I can't lie), but the options you have in it are great. No longer are you forced down to a normal Dreamweaver standard of a handful of fonts. Yes, I know, it's an insane power that much be kept in check. Web designers may end up ruling the world with this system.
Anyways, now I can create even better websites now! No longer will I look like such a web design amateur.
Now then, you may ask, how did I get these fonts in? Well, when you go to Google fonts, all it takes is a simple copy paste into the source code! Not so hard, was it?
From there it's just like any other font job you've done. Go into the css, and add it in as a font-family. Easy stuff, right? Absolutely! Go try it yourself. The link to Google fonts can be found right here!

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