Title: Force custom fonts?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Force custom fonts?

 *  [Kettercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kettercat/)
 * (@kettercat)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/)
 * Hey everyone,
 * I’ve bought a theme and apparently, it only lets me use the fonts that come along
   with it. The list has plenty of fonts but none of them support the Hebrew language(
   my site’s language).
    Even when I set the desired font of choice with CSS, it
   won’t change anything, even when I use the “!important” tag. The theme’s support
   forum say that right now they don’t support fonts other than the ones listed,
   which is pretty lame as now any visitor sees different fonts, depends on their
   browser’s default.
 * Any way to bypass that and force my own fonts even though they block me?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907895)
 * Are there any Google fonts that will work for what you want? There is an easy
   way to add google fonts.
 *  Thread Starter [Kettercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kettercat/)
 * (@kettercat)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907898)
 * Yeah, a Google font is exactly what I’m trying to use. How do I do that? 🙂
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907899)
 * I did find this link with a downloadable font, but I don’t know how to add it
   to WP. [http://alef.hagilda.com/](http://alef.hagilda.com/)
 *  Thread Starter [Kettercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kettercat/)
 * (@kettercat)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907900)
 * Hi again,
    Exactly what I’m trying to use. I’ve used it before with CSS, in this
   case the theme blocks it 🙁
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907904)
 * Add this to your functions.php, I strongly suggest using a CHILD THEME for this.
   Place your fontname where it says YourFontHere.
 *     ```
       // Add Google Font
       add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_google_font' );
       function my_google_font() {
           wp_enqueue_style( $handle = 'my-google-font', $src = 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=YourFontHere', $deps = array(), $ver = null, $media = null );
       }
       ```
   
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907906)
 * If you wish to add more fonts do it like this:
    font1|font2|font3
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907907)
 * The best way to make changes like this to a theme is to use a child theme, so
   your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides
   in case you haven’t made one before:
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/)
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907917)
 * Once you have your font setup then use the “style.css” file to use it where you
   want. You can also use the font in your text editor, but you will have to manually
   edit that in.
 *  Thread Starter [Kettercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kettercat/)
 * (@kettercat)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907989)
 * Hey again!
 * Thanks for all your help 🙂 I ended up using a great Google fonts plugin and 
   apparently it overrides all the theme’s settings.
    Did the trick for now 🙂
 * Thanks again!

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 * Last reply from: [Kettercat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kettercat/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-custom-fonts/#post-5907989)
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