Dynamically load google fonts after page has loaded

javascript jquery css font-face google-font-api

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Solution 1

Check out the WebFont.load command in this github repo:

https://github.com/typekit/webfontloader

You can load whatever font you want dynamically:

 <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js"></script> 
  <script> 
        WebFont.load({
                    google: { 
                           families: ['Droid Sans', 'Droid Serif'] 
                     } 
         }); 
   </script>

Solution 2

Or if you don't want third party libs :

function addStylesheetURL(url) {
  var link = document.createElement('link');
  link.rel = 'stylesheet';
  link.href = url;
  document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(link);
}

// Load Tangerine & Cantarell
addStylesheetURL('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Cantarell&family=Tangerine&display=swap');

    h1 {
      font-family: 'Cantarell', sans-serif;
    }
    p {
      font-family: 'Tangerine', cursive;
      font-size: 30px;
    }

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Dynamically load google fonts after page has loaded</title>
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com">
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Dynamically load google fonts after page has loaded</h1>
    <p>Some text.</p>
  </body>
</html>

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Author by

Alexis

Updated on July 25, 2022

Comments

Alexis almost 2 years

I would like to be able to have the user select which font they would like the page to be displayed in. Here is the way that Google recommends you do it using JavaScript.

WebFontConfig = {
    google: {
        families: ['Tangerine', 'Cantarell']
    }
};

(function() {
        var wf = document.createElement('script');
        wf.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https' : 'http') +
            '://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1/webfont.js';
        wf.type = 'text/javascript';
        wf.async = 'true';
        var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
        s.parentNode.insertBefore(wf, s);
      })();

How can I modify this so that I can re-get fonts after the page has loaded?