Once you’ve got your blog up and running, now comes the fun part, making it look pretty! There are different ways of doing this. You can depend on your theme to deliver the look you want and that is a big part of it because you can customise it to how you want it. For example, with my theme, I can change the main colours and fonts for my headings or the main part of my posts. It can be a little limited though and sticks to the main fonts you can find in a word document.
If you want some different fonts for your headings and landing pages, how does that work? Like for many things on WordPress, there’s a plugin for that. I’m going to take you through the top 5 WordPress font plugins I recommend for adding custom fonts and go through their pros and cons for you. They’re not in any particular order. You can always download the one you like the sound of and then experiment with the fonts they have (or find your own). If it’s not quite right then try another. Always delete and deactivate plugins you are not using.
1. Easy Google Fonts
This is the bread and butter plugin that is often recommended. I’ve used it myself and it has a few extra fonts that you commonly find. It’s easy to use with your theme’s customiser, so you can then change any font in the theme’s Typography. The downside with this one is that you cannot upload your own fonts.
2. Fontsy
Fontsy is a wordpress font plugin that is really user friendly and requires no coding knowledge. You can upload your own fonts or use some of their free fonts. They also have some paid fonts available. It’s easy to apply the fonts to heading 1, heading 2, paragraph etc. They have a really nice range of different fonts including the popular script and brush fonts that are so pretty.
3. Use any font
The use any font plugin allows you to upload your own fonts in any format. They come in formats like ttf, otf, and woff so whichever one you upload they will all work the same way. There are sites where you can get free fonts to download as a file and then upload using one of these plugins.
4. Zeno font resizer
Zeno font resizer does what it says on the tin, you can resize your fonts. It also allows readers to set their font size when they read and saves their choice on a cookie so that they don’t need to change it every time. Great for readers with visual impairments who need a large font size.
5. Font Awesome
This plugin does not do the same as the others in that you can’t upload fonts and customise your typography, but it is for placing and using icons which is good if that’s what your design entails. You might want to place icons for different categories on a landing page for example.
So there you have it, five plugins for adding custom fonts to your WordPress site. Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
