Google fonts. OMG!

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Can any of you lovely people give me a step-by-step, idiot’s guide to using Google fonts.

I wish to use Open Sans 300, 600 and 800.

I have followed all instructions (most slightly out-of-date) without success. The screen rendition in Freeway is fine but previews as Times. And I have made the fonts sets!

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When you are using multiple or non-standard weights, your css style should
reflect that. Since the standard Style Editor in Freeway Pro does not give
you that level of control, you need to open the Extended CSS Style
interface for your text style and create the following property:

  font-weight:300

where font-weight is the property name and 300 is the value. Of course
the value should be 300, 600, or 800 – whichever you prefer for that
style.

I would preview in the browser.

Also, here is another set of slightly out-of-date instructions I made a
little while ago: http://cssway.thebigerns.com/workbench/google-fonts/

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Ernie Simpson

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Graham Meigh email@hiddenwrote:

Can any of you lovely people give me a step-by-step, idiot’s guide to
using Google fonts.

I wish to use Open Sans 300, 600 and 800.

I have followed all instructions (most slightly out-of-date) without
success. The screen rendition in Freeway is fine but previews as Times. And
I have made the fonts sets!

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Graham,

I’m guessing you’ve read the knowledge-base article? If you follow it step for step, it should work perfectly: http://www.softpress.com/kb/questions/276/Using+Google+Web+Fonts

If that doesn’t work, upload the website somewhere so we can have a look at the CSS and figure out what went wrong.

Also, make sure that you wrap Open Sans with quotation marks when you build the font set, like so: ‘Open Sans’.

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Speaking of fonts, what is the best and most universally accepted website font solution?

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Speaking of fonts, what is the best and most universally accepted website
font solution?

Modern browsers are supportive of CSS web fonts, like google. IE8 still
supports graphic text, which ironically is how Facebook users seem to
communicate.

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Thanks for the advice… it’s not you, it’s me!

Here’s the link

http://takeastepbeyond.co.uk/test/

Pulling my hair out with this one!

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Graham,
Here’s your problem:

font-family: 'Open Sans', Serif, "font-weight: n";

"font-weight" doesn’t belong in there. All you want is 'Open Sans', Sans-Serif in the font set dialog.

To add the font-weight, open “Edit > Styles” from the top bar after you have the font set fixed. Choose a style, and click extended. Enter font-weight for the name, and the weight number for the value.

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Well Caleb, I was sceptical… I thought I had been there already.

But… yippee!

Thanks guys. I can go to bed and sleep well tonight.

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