Use google font in Wordpress - css

I'm trying to add a Google font to the Wordpress Cyberchimps responsive theme.
https://cyberchimps.com/forum-topic/where-do-i-override-the-default-font/
I've tried to embed the link to the font in the header, but it doesn't update to use it.
How can I use the custom font?

To use google fonts in your website, you simply need to put a link in the head of your page ( in a similar manner like you add css files ). Like this :-
<link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=IM+Fell+DW+Pica' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
And access it in you css like this :-
.im-fell-dw-pica-font{
font-family: 'IM Fell DW Pica', sans-serif;
}
Here 'IM Fell DW Pica' is the google font required.( Note that sans-serif is defined after our required font 'IM Fell DW Pica'. This is done so that the browser loads sans-serif font if our google font is not loaded for some reason. )
You can now apply this class to the element you want like this :-
<div class="im-fell-dw-pica-font">Some random text</div>

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font-family is not working in my css file

I'm working with css in my mockup, and I need to put a specific font, in this case the font as the name of Roboto, but when I put that font on css, the font doesn't change
Here's the code:
.field__item p{
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
color:red;
}
Follow this steps:
1- Go to Google fonts website here: https://fonts.google.com/
2- Search for the font Roboto on search bar
3- Select the sizes you want
4- And then you have on your right a code like this:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Montserrat:wght#100;200;300;400;500;600;700;800;900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
5- Then after paste that code into your file, the font should work

Custom font delayed loading in IE

On page load in IE, the page is displayed for a fraction of second with no custom font, then it renders fine. But this behavior is not in Chrome. Any suggestion how to prevent it.
Thanks
Use always google fonts for websites in this way.
Add in Html
<head>
<title>Website Name</title>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
Add in CSS
body{
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}
font loading speed depend on the size of the font, your browser cache, and the bandwidth of your network.
that aside, why there is no problem in chrome? it might be because of the way the browser was designed. IE is old, and I bet that your chrome is brand new. so it might be that chrome has a better thread management than IE.
what to do to minimize the effect? you can try to reduce the size of your font. for example, if you use the font for icons, then you can remove the icons that you are not using.
another way is to use windows build in fonts for display in IE, that way, the browser does not need to download fonts. for example, you can use century gothic, impact, or calibri

Can't set font-weight on Google Fonts

This question has been asked quite a number of times, but none of them works for me. For example:
Google fonts font-weight of 100 is not working. (I don't have the font I want to use already in my system.)
Why is google font weight not working?. (I'm not using it in a heading, just a regular paragraph.)
I used Google Fonts with the #import like so:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rubik');
body {
font-family: 'Rubik', sans-serif;
}
The typeface shows up, but I can't do anything with the weight. The <strong> tags aren't displayed bold. The font-weight property in the CSS isn't working. Not even overriding it in browser's inspector changes anything.
Update
The thing seems to only work on Gecko-based browsers, like Firefox.
The answer is that the Google font isn't calibrated to carry all of the weights you want with it.
Some of the browsers may display 'thicker' or 'thinner' type, but they are tricking you. They are doubling up the normal font to simulate what you are asking for when there is no actual weight of that type available. The ones that do that are trying to be nice, but these days it is more confusing than helpful. According to your code snippet, you have:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rubik');
vs
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Rubik:300,400,500i,900,900i');
(Google Fonts UI 2017 - may look different in the future but the concept is the same for any font service)
Many fonts only have 1 weight.
Here's a list of all of the possible names for font-weights;
Thin 100
Extra Light 200
Light 300
Regular 400
Medium 500
Semi-Bold 600
Bold 700
Black 900
I have had also issues to get the weights working, even though I had properly copied the HTML code from google and put into my head.
Solution:
I used the #import function by adding it my CSS and now everything works without issues. Seems that #import is more robust or less conflicting with wp themes.
I had the same issue.
For me the problem was that my link to bootstrap was placed after my link to styles.css in my html, and thus bootstrap overrode the style for h1.
The solution was simply to put the link to styles.css after the link to bootstrap in my html. :)
I had the same problem until I found out that you can not change the font weight of the body.
you have to target the exact tag you want to change the weight
eg.
Check this code out
I had the same problem: i noticed that it occurred when you import the font on the css file like:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Poppins:ital,wght#0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap');
So in order to solve i just imported all the font weight from the html file and then use the font weight and the font family as usual in the css file:
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com"><link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin><link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Poppins:ital,wght#0,100;0,200;0,300;0,400;0,500;0,600;0,700;0,800;0,900;1,100;1,200;1,300;1,400;1,500;1,600;1,700;1,800;1,900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
Doing like this i was able to solve my problem. Noticed that you can't specify the font weight in the body tag but you have to do in the single html tag like h1 h2 h3 p ecc
The no. of fonts weights you require select them all.This will look like this:
#import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ubuntu:ital,wght#0,400;0,700;1,300&display=swap');
Now you can use all this font-weights.

Using the Avant Garde BK BT Font on Webpages?

If I download and use this font on my web page, will it be able to render correctly on all browsers? I have checked on Google Chrome and it is not on the list of default fonts installed.
If not, is there an alternative that can be used so my web page will be able to render properly on all the browsers and operating systems?
You need to include a web-font in order to ensure your page renders the same on all browsers. A good repository of web-fonts can be found here:
http://www.google.com/fonts/
https://edgewebfonts.adobe.com/
If you own a licence which permits you to use the font on a website, you can use the following converter to change your font into a web format
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator
An example of including and using a web-font :
HTML
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
CSS
body {
font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
}

Google font not working with bootstrap

I'm trying to use Google Font on a page. In my html I used:
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
And in my CSS:
#import url('http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans');
Still whenI use "Open Sans" with the font-family attribute it stays on Arial.
body
{
background-color: #F1F1F2;
font-family: "Open Sans", Arial;
}
Using google font on any webpage is very easy and you can load the fonts asynchronously.
If you don't use the direct code that Google font delivers and you simply load the following url:
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,600
You'd be represented the source code (CSS).
Now, copy and paste the displayed code in the CSS source of your website.
You can then use your selected google font(s) on your webpages using the following:
body
{
background-color: #F1F1F2;
font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial;
}
That's enough and it will work.
I have a hunch that your bootstrap is being loaded after the CSS for your Google font. Find the point that you are importing this CSS:
#import "bootstrap-sprockets";
#import "bootstrap";
Then add your Google code AFTER that to make sure that it is not being overwritten by the bootstrap.
Good Luck!
First of all, you dont need to do it twice! any one kind of FONT ASSOCIATION is enough !!
Warning that overuse of #import may cause a overhead!
Bootstrap(if you have used it) usually overrides the font with -> font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif
Working Demo -> Click here
Note : I have added the font as external resources. It seems to be working properly !
just do !important after the font style you want to use

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