Hello All,
I am busy prepping the next release of the Fordson theme and need your help. A brand new feature will be a drop-down for Google Fonts. If you would like a certain font from the list at google please let me know before the end of the week.
Please reply with the link to the font such as " https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Krona+One "
I'll be checking back here and try to include all the fonts in the drop-down as long as it doesn't get to be too long of a list!
Thanks Gareth. I have it added.
Hi Chris,
In the past (flexibase) I've done this kind of thing as a free text entry for the font name and another one for the weights/styles where needed, then used that to construct the URL (and the font-family css rule) so that the user - or at least the site administrator as it is a theme setting - can choose any Google font they wanted to and if the font lists (or design tastes) change, I wouldn't have to update the theme every time.
I haven't tried it with Boost yet, but I think it worked quite well in Flexibase
https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#a_quick_example
This would provide the ultimate in flexibility but could also cause some issues if it isn't put in the text field correctly. I think I had something similar in Pioneer but it was clunky.
I am stumped on how to add the second part of the font such as serif, sans-serif, cursive, monospace, etc.
Any ideas on this?
If you are providing them as a drop down list, then you could use a keyed array as you will know all the variables
$fontsarray(
fontname1 => fonttypeA,
fontname2 => fonttypeA,
fontname3 => fonttypeB,
fontname4 => fonttypeA,
)
Then you use that as
$fonttypeforurl = $fontsarray['userselectedfont']
Hi Chris,
If possible, Raleway: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway
and if not already included, the beautiful Open Sans: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans.
Thanks for your excellent and worthy work!
Nicolas
Awwww... you missed my request for PT Sans
Any hopes for the next realease?
Hey Richard,
It's still experimental. Some fonts worked well and others seemed to have no impact and I believe that is because of the way I bring them into the theme.
So, in short... I'm still learning how to best do this.
Chris
OK Thanks! It's not really a problem for me, when I add one line of html to the head section and one line of CSS, I still have the PT Sans.
If I can help with anything just let me know.
