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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Pick Fonts and Set Relative Units

Posted by David Hynes
David Hynes
4,309 Points

Font Not Changing

Hey all.

I have a conundrum regarding my Google font. Here it is in my index:

<head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>David Hynes | Designer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Play:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css"> </head>

And CSS main:

h1 {font-family: 'Play', sans-serif; margin: 15px 0; font-size: 1.75em;}

Garrett Levine
Garrett Levine
20,305 Points
Garrett Levine
Garrett Levine
20,305 Points

it's possible it could be an issue with the font/google fonts itself. I recommend changing to some basic fonts to see if it a code issue, or an external issue, and then we can move on from there!

Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller
12,466 Points
Jacob Miller
Jacob Miller
12,466 Points

The Google font is working for me. Are you sure that you are linking to the main.css file correctly?

2 Answers

Gaylen Miller
Gaylen Miller
19,286 Points
Gaylen Miller
Gaylen Miller
19,286 Points

Here's what I tried and the H1 was in Play and the H2 was not. Make sure the href="" on the link rel="stylesheet" points to the .css file.

<head>
 <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>David Hynes | Designer</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
  <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Play:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css">
</head>
<body>
  <h1>This is a test of the H1</h1>
  <h2>This is an H2</h2>
</body>

h1 {
  font-family: 'Play', sans-serif; 
  margin: 15px 0; 
  font-size: 1.75em;
}
David Hynes
David Hynes
4,309 Points
David Hynes
David Hynes
4,309 Points

Hey it worked tonight for some reason without me changing anything... very odd! Maybe Google was resetting those servers last night or something! Thanks for chiming in, everyone!