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Learning Magento Theme Development

You're reading from   Learning Magento Theme Development Create visually stunning and responsive themes to customize the appearance of your Magento store

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783280612
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to Magento and Magento Themes FREE CHAPTER 2. Magento Theming Basics 3. Magento Templates 4. Magento Layout 5. Social Media and Magento 6. Advanced Magento Theming 7. Magento Theming for Mobile and Tablet Devices 8. Magento E-mail Templates Index

Using Google Web Fonts and @font-face


With the advent of the @font-face support across browsers, you can use custom fonts from services such as Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/fonts/) in your Magento theme.

Including Google Web Font in your store's theme

Once you have selected a font to use, copy the code that Google Fonts provides to embed the CSS, which will look something like the following:

<link href='//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Navigate to System | Configuration in your Magento store's administration panel and paste this in the Miscellaneous Scripts field, which is in the HTML Head panel under the Design tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click on the Save Config button at the top-right corner of the screen to save this change.

This step ensures that the font is available to be used in your theme; the next step is to use the font in your theme's style sheets.

Google's Web Font performance is okay for desktop visitors...

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