Web safe fonts already have font files ready on the majority of devices. But, don’t worry about the lack of the word safe. Google Fonts are completely safe to use to enhance the design of your website . But, the extra HTTP requests to an outside server could slow down your page loading speed.
Here are some useful font tools you can use when designing websites or content for the web. While Google Fonts aren’t technically web safe, they can safely be used in combination with web safe fonts. Just be sure to set a web safe font as a backup! See the section on CSS Font Stacks above for more information on this topic.
You can check this by looking into the page source. For example, in Google Chrome right click on the page and click view page source option. You will see a meta tag like below on the webpage’s header section indicating the page will download the fonts from Google’s server.
What is Google Fonts used for?
Google Fonts is the leading host of open- source fonts for use on the web, with hundreds of font families available for inclusion in web pages or download.
What is a websafe font?
No matter where the person is in the world and what device they’re using, a websafe font will always load and display correctly. Web friendly fonts are often compared with online fonts like Google Fonts but they are different.
You might be wondering “What font is used in Google Docs?”
Arial (sans-serif) Arial is the most widely used font for both online and printed media. Arial is also the default font in Google Docs. Arial is one of the safest web fonts, and it is available on all major operating systems.
Why doesn’t Google Fonts work on Chrome?
Assuming that, there is no reason It should not work. The only issue is that loading that many fonts slows down the load time, as Google Font itself specifies. Maybe that, coupled with a relatively slow internet connection may cause the fallback to available fonts. EDIT UPDATE: if you open the chrome developer console you may check for this issue.
When a page uses Google fonts, the browser will try to download all relevant font files to the browser’s cache before rendering the page content.