14 DAY TRIAL // Blogger is rolling out support for web fonts for all its users. Anyone will now have the possibility to add a little flair and move beyond Arial and Times New Roman with a big selection of optional fonts for their blogs. There are now 77 new fonts to pick from, though they're only available if you're using one of the new Template Designer themes.
"A couple of months back we introduced Web Fonts to Blogger in Draft. Today we’re excited to not only launch Web Fonts to ALL Blogger users, but also announce we’ve added an additional 35 fonts to the mix, for a grand total of 77 fonts!," Blogger announced.
Web Fonts were already available for those using Blogger in Draft, where most new features are first tested before rolling them out to everyone. Now though the option to use web-based fonts, provided by Google, is available to all.
"Web Fonts, brought to you by our good friends at Google Fonts, let you spice up and further personalize your blog. Just have a look at what we’ve done with the post titles and text of this blog! And for those of you interested in fonts for non-latin alphabets such as Cyrillic, Greek and Khmer, we have those too!," it continued.
All you have to do is fire up the Template Designer, from the Design tab of the Blogger Dashboard, and go to the Advanced section. You'll be able to pick the font for most elements of your blog, titles, posts, links and so on.
The new web fonts come straight from the Google Fonts Directory and are freely available for use on any website. Blogger just streamlined the process and made it easy for non-technical users to customize the look of their blogs.
Web fonts are supported by most browsers out there but you will have to be using a relatively recent version. Chrome 4+, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 3.1+, Opera 10.5+ and Internet Explorer 7+ are all supported.
