The choice of fonts is a vital design decision for your website. The text in your website has to be clear and readable, yet it has to stand out from the ordinary. It’s a tough call. The magic of CSS allows you to embed any font of your choosing into your website. You can opt-in for paid options, like Typekit, Fontdeck, Fontspring etc, but you don’t really need to. There are thousands and thousands of free fonts available on the web. But the good ones, they are hard to find.
Google Web Fonts (GWF) offers hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web. GWF makes it quick and easy for everyone to use web fonts, from professional designers to developers. At the moment of this writing, it offers 764 beautiful fonts to choose from. It’s effortless to use them and it even allows you to download the font for development and testing on your local machine.
Here are our favorite 10 Google fonts that you should consider for your website.
1. Amaranth
2. Arvo
3. Cabin
4. Josefin Sans
5. Lato
6. Old Standard TT
7. Oswald
8. PT Serif
9. Ubuntu
10. Vollkorn
Bonus: Abril Fatface
