While there is a large collection of fonts available on WordPress.com, Google fonts offers a vast library of over 1800 font families. In this guide, you will learn how to install a font from Google Fonts for use on your WordPress.com site.
This feature is available on sites with the WordPress.com Business and Commerce plans, and the legacy Pro plan. If you have a Business plan, make sure to activate it. For sites on the Free, Personal, and Premium plans, upgrade your plan to access this feature.
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Ask our AI assistantTo install a font from Google Fonts, follow these steps:
- Visit your website’s dashboard.
- Go to Appearance → Editor.
- Click on the “Styles” menu option.
- In the editor, you can also select the Styles icon in the upper-right corner — the button looks like a black-and-white circle.
- Select the “Typography” option.
- Click the “Manage Fonts” button, which looks like two horizontal lines with dots on them.
- Click “Install Fonts” and allow access to Google Fonts by clicking the “Allow access to Google Fonts” button. You can then begin browsing the fonts.
- Click the name of the font and select the variants you want to install.
- Click the “Install” button.
Once the font is successfully installed, it will appear in your Library under “Installed Fonts”.
To install fonts from Google, you must give permission to connect directly to Google servers. The fonts you install will be downloaded from Google and stored on your site. Your site will then use these locally hosted fonts.
You can revoke access at any time through the “Install Fonts” section. Click the three dots (⋮) to the right of the header and select “Revoke access to Google Fonts”.
After you have successfully installed a font from Google Fonts, that font will appear anywhere you can edit the font of your text.
You can set the font as a global style or apply it to a single line of text.
All requests to serve Google Fonts used in WordPress.com themes are served through WordPress.com’s servers and no longer use Google’s CDN/FDN. This change was made in December 2022.
If your site uses a custom plugin or third-party theme, verify with the plugin or theme developers to ensure they are not serving Google Fonts through Google’s CDN/FDN. You can learn more about GDPR here.