How to use Google font in wordpress? - html

Question

My custom css has the following code
h1 a {
font-family:'Droid Sans Mono''Share Tech Mono''Ropa Sans', sans-serif;
'Poiret One''Cutive Mono''Helvetica Neue''Arial'; !important;
}
this is at the top of my custom css:
#import url (http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto|Droid+Sans+Mono|Share+Tech+Mono|Ropa+Sans|Cutive+Mono|Poiret+One|Lato:100,600,900) ;
and my in page code is:
<h1 style="font-size: 25px; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; hover font-family:'Droid Sans Mono''Share Tech Mono''Ropa Sans', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.xxx.com/?page_id=4348"></h1>
But the none of the fonts seem to be loading. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You're loading the CSS in your custom CSS, which is good, but you're not calling it properly.
You have this:
h1 a {
font-family:'Droid Sans Mono''Share Tech Mono''Ropa Sans', sans-serif;
'Poiret One''Cutive Mono''Helvetica Neue''Arial'; !important;
}
Not only is that code wrong, it's scary.
This is what it should be like:
h1 a {
font-family: 'Droid Sans Mono', 'Share Tech Mono', 'Ropa Sans', sans-serif, 'Poiret One', 'Cutive Mono', 'Helvetica Neue', 'Arial' !important;
}
Each new font call should be seperated with a , and the !important goes before the ; and the style will always only have one ; right at the very end of the css style rule.
Also just for the record, there is no good reason you need to include that amount of fonts, and if Droid Sans Mono and Share Tech Mono and even Ropa Sans don't load, anything after sans-serif won't load as sans-serif will be the font of choice as it's a default choice and should only really be used as a last resort/fallback (if you have other fonts you want to take precedence, that is).
If they do load, then you're only going to ever be using Droid Sans Mono and then it's a waste calling all the other fonts.
Make sure you're actually using all of those fonts, as it could essentially slow down the website load time drastically.
Side note:
Please try and refrain from using inline css (css that is put in using the style in a html attribute). However, if you must do it, you need to fix your h1 tag also:
<h1 style="font-size: 25px; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; font-family:'Droid Sans Mono', 'Share Tech Mono', 'Ropa Sans', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.xxx.com/?page_id=4348"></h1>
Don't just include the word hover in there because it will break your CSS and anything after has a high chance of not running. Again, separate each instance of font with a , and have only a ; after each new css style rule.
You don't need both inline css and a css file styling two identical attributes, just use the .css file.
Please make sure that you have url( and not url (. Although it is a simple (space), it is a function and will not work if the ( is not directly after url.

Answer 2

you're not loading the font anywhere. i suggest you install and use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-google-fonts/
you'll choose the font you want on your website and you will be able to use it.
hope this helps