First time I change fonts in an existing theme. We’ll see how that works.
Just learnt about Adobe’s Source Sans Pro and thought it was particularly neat. I’m no “type geek” but I’m getting something from this font which I don’t get from other fonts. Been switching different desktop apps to it and it’s now the default font in my default browser. Now that Adobe has released the monospace Source Code Pro, I’m using that in text editors.
Using Google Web Fonts with WordPress
As these fonts are among Google Web Fonts, it’s particularly easy to use them with Web content.
There are plenty of methods to change fonts in a WordPress theme. The best one, most likely, is to create a child theme and change fonts there. Looks like the “@import” method isn’t recommended, but it probably works.
In my case, I’m using a simple plugin. There are plenty of Web fonts plugins available but this one seems to do the job and I don’t need the features other plugins are boasting. One thing I might want to change is the font for blockquotes.
Blockquotes can look quite different from the rest…
But that’s not really an issue, for now. Same thing with switching fixed-width to Source Code Pro.
This probably looks weird…
Given the popularity of Source Sans Pro, I’m assuming some WP themes will start adopting it as a font choice. We’ll see.
In the meantime, I’ll probably switch to Source Sans Pro on other sites as well.
Some samples…
- Il était une fois…
- Affinités pour les ligatures subtiles, pour les afters.
- Dans le gras du vide.
- Ça marche comme à Çingleton, ça madame!
- À moins de 0ºC, Orville se les gèle.