Google Fonts
If you do not want to use any of the standard fonts in HTML, you can use Google Fonts.
Google Fonts are free to use, and have more than 1000 fonts to choose from.
How To Use Google Fonts
Just add a special style sheet link in the <head> section and then refer to the font in the CSS.
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Sofia"> <style> body {
font-family: "Sofia", sans-serif;
}
</style> </head>Live preview
Expected output
Sofia Font Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 123456790
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Trirong"> <style> body {
font-family: "Trirong", serif;
}
</style> </head>Live preview
Expected output
Trirong Font Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 123456790
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Audiowide"> <style> body {
font-family: "Audiowide", sans-serif;
}
</style> </head>Live preview
Expected output
Audiowide Font Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 123456790
Note
When specifying a font in CSS, always list at minimum one fallback font (to avoid unexpected behaviors). So, also here you should add a generic font family (like serif or sans-serif) to the end of the list.
For a list of all available Google Fonts, visit our How To - Google Fonts Tutorial .
Use Multiple Google Fonts
To use multiple Google fonts, just separate the font names with a pipe character ( | ), like this:
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Audiowide|Sofia|Trirong"> <style> h1.a {font-family: "Audiowide", sans-serif;}
h1.b {font-family: "Sofia", sans-serif;}
h1.c {font-family: "Trirong", serif;}
</style> </head>Live preview
Expected output
Audiowide Font Sofia Font Trirong Font
Note
Requesting multiple fonts may slow down your web pages! So be careful about that.
Styling Google Fonts
Of course you can style Google Fonts as you like, with CSS!
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Sofia"> <style> body {
font-family: "Sofia", sans-serif;
font-size: 30px;
text-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #ababab;
}
</style> </head>Live preview
Expected output
Sofia Font Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 123456790
Enabling Font Effects
Google has also enabled different font effects that you can use.
First add effect= effectname to the Google API, then add a special class name to the element that is going to use the special effect. The class name always starts with font-effect- and ends with the effectname .
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Sofia&effect=fire"> <style> body {
font-family: "Sofia", sans-serif;
font-size: 30px;
}
</style> </head> <body> <h1 class="font-effect-fire">Sofia on
Fire</h1> </body>Live preview
Expected output
Sofia on Fire
To request multiple font effects, just separate the effect names with a pipe character ( | ), like this:
Example
<head> <link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Sofia&effect=neon|outline|emboss|shadow-multiple"> <style> body {
font-family: "Sofia", sans-serif;
font-size: 30px;
}
</style> </head> <body> <h1 class="font-effect-neon">Neon Effect</h1> <h1 class="font-effect-outline">Outline
Effect</h1> <h1 class="font-effect-emboss">Emboss
Effect</h1> <h1 class="font-effect-shadow-multiple">Multiple
Shadow Effect</h1> </body>Live preview
Expected output
Neon Effect Outline Effect Emboss Effect Multiple Shadow Effect