Yes, it is fact that you can ask a web design company to use Google web fonts API to give you the liberty in making your website as far beautiful as you desire. If you do not hire an experienced web designer, he or she may be giving you the following excuses against using Google web fonts. Let us see:
- Browser quirks: Your designer may tell you that it is always better to use browser safe fonts (Arial / Helvetica / Times New Roman / Courier New / Courier) so that your site goes visible easily from any browser. Using fonts other than these few may incur browser quirk mode in which your original webpage texts will be replaced with browser known fonts. And the beauty of your webpage vanishes! But now you can ask your designers to use Google web fonts that have lots of fonts and will be available all time!
- Ease of use: It may be the case that you are determined to use your favorite font in the website. That is fine but to keep your site visible in every browser the designers have to use the safe fonts with the particular font of your choice. But if you choose one of the Google web fonts, and then your designer has no headache – only use the API for the Google font and the rest will be easy. The font will be available as Google makes it available for sure. You safe the labor and resource to make these footling things!
- Minimum knowledge is sufficient: Sometimes for various reasons you may hire a web designer or team with less experience! In those cases you find that they have only the minimum knowledge on the use of "@Font-face" and for that you are getting trouble to put the desired font in your site. They do know how to use the default font setup. But if you ask the designer to use Google web fonts API, they are not going to face any trouble in applying that. You only choose the fonts among lot many available ones through Google web fonts.
- Cost does not matter: Many a times your designers advise you not to use your own chosen fonts as that may be not available on free of cost! And consequently you have to suppress you desire of using your favorite font! Now there will not be such issues! You have to simply ask your designer to use Google web fonts as those are open source and free! So choosing favorite font has gone far more comfortable - isn't it?
It is true but Google Web Fonts is the best way to add amazing new free fonts to sites. Google web fonts are web safe fonts, which can be added to any site by adding a few simple lines of code to your html. One day google will be a liberty from Times New Roman and Arial.
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