In the example below, we’ll change the font for the text on the body to ‘Open Sans’. From there you should be able to select it in Notepad++. Windows retained the same default font in Notepad for about a decade from Windows 2000 up to Windows 7. So download the consolas OpenType file, run it and click Install.

Open your themes style.css file and replace the original value for the font-family in any CSS rules you want to use your Google fonts. In Notepad++ you can use all installed fonts. The PHP in the Gist above should be copied from the view raw link and then pasted in your child themes functions.php file using a code editor like Notepad++. In this example, you only need to replace Oswald|Open+Sans in the PHP code with the names and/or font sizes you have chosen. In this tutorial, we’ll use PHP code to install your fonts in your child themes functions file.Īll you need to do is replace the font names in the code below with your own. Simply go to Google’s website and choose one or more fonts.Īfter you click Use, scroll down to the 3rd step where you can see different methods of installing your fonts.

In this tutorial, i’ll show you step by step how best to load Google fonts so you can use them in your themes style.css file. For Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft decided to change the default font in Notepad to go with the radical new look of the operating system. Google provide hundreds of different web fonts you can use for free anywhere in your theme.

Notepad++ font family