If you have a WordPress website or are planning to develop one, then you need some WordPress font plugins. Ideally, you would need only one but since your requirements may not be the same as that of others, you do have to test run a few plugins to see which ones can satiate your needs.
Fonts are not just important for the sole purpose of appearance or design. Fonts can influence layouts, readability and also contribute to whether or not a visitor or reader would stick around on a website. It is thus necessary that you get your website fonts right. To help you in your quest, here are some of the best WordPress font plugins.
1. Easy Google Fonts
Easy Google Fonts work with WordPress Customizer and there is a real time automatic sync and preview of all changes you make. You can come up with custom fonts or you can use one or many from the existing inventory. The fonts you come up with using this plugin will be compatible with any theme on WordPress. This is an issue that needs more attention than it gets. Many a time, fonts don’t blend well, get changed due to incompatibility or simply look out of place with specific themes. That will not happen when you use Easy Google Fonts.
There are more than 600 Google fonts and then there are variants. You can obviously choose from this or have your own custom font. You will have complete control to the typography of the theme on your website and that is without any need for coding. You can store your custom fonts in the Customizer preview section so you can instantly make changes whenever you need or have to. You also get to preview the fonts vis-à-vis the themes you may have thought of before you go ahead to save the creations in your account. There are many other useful features of Easy Google Fonts.
2. WP Google Fonts
WP Google Fonts stands out for two reasons. One, it brings to you the entire Google Font Directory. That itself is a huge inventory. You don’t really need any more to make a choice. On a lighter note, the more options you get the more difficult it is to make a decision. Google Font Directory is compatible with all WordPress themes and that is the second advantage. So you effectively get to choose a kind of font you want and you don’t have to worry about its compatibility with the website you have already developed or are in the process of developing. It is one of the most downloaded WordPress font plugins.
3. Use Any Font
This plugin allows you to embed any font in your website. You don’t need to rely on external sources to keep using the font. The fonts are not stored in remote servers which make uptime uncertain. And you are not confined to a select or preset number of fonts. Use Any Font is very easy to use. It is compatible with all major browsers, the interface allows you to covert fronts within the plugin, you can convert fonts in formats that are not typically in use and can thus use those fonts once they are in acceptable formats (ala otf and ttf), the support for a font file is up to 10 MB which is huge and you can use multiple fonts at the same place and time. There are many other utilitarian features of Use Any Font.
4. Font
Downloaded and used by thousands, Font is one of the more popular WordPress font plugins. It doesn’t need any coding and you don’t have to be a website designer or programmer. All you need is a penchant to select the fonts you think would work for your site. The plugin allows you to choose fonts, to change its size, hues and other attributes.
Other than the standard colors and sizes, you also get color picker and slider to get a unique hue or size. The slider and the color picker are very effective features as they allow you to witness the gradual change of size and color which makes it far easier to come up with unique fonts. With standard approaches of selecting fonts, what you can do at best is select something that is already in use. You cannot have that rare font. With this plugin, you can.
5. Font Awesome More Icons
Font Awesome More Icons is more popular for its icons than fonts. You actually need both for an appealing website. You have three choices with this plugin. You can go with the HTML option, the Shortcode option or the new Shortcode option. This plugin is not for every webmaster or website owner as you need to have some knowledge about coding but if you do have some expertise then this can be a great tool.
