Font Customizer

Play with beautiful fonts, live from the WordPress Customizer.

Author:nikeo (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:3.4
WordPress version tested:4.1.1
Plugin version:1.1.0
Added to WordPress repository:03-07-2014
Last updated:03-04-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
Rating, %:60
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Total downloads:12 828
Active installs:1 000+
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Make beautiful Google font combinations and apply awesome CSS3 effects to any WordPress themes. Preview everything right from the WordPress customizer before publishing live. Cross browser compatible, fast and easy, the Font Customizer is the ultimate plugin for typography lovers.

Plugin Features

All settings are done from the WordPress customizer in live preview (screenshots here), which makes this plugin easy as breeze and a really enjoyable experience to use.

  • Compatible with any WordPress theme
  • Cross Browser Compatible (Tested in all major browsers)
  • Live preview is integrated into the WordPress Customizer with a beautiful user interface
  • Customize main body font, links, headings, blockquotes
  • Select among 650 + Google and websafe fonts in live preview
  • Apply 40+ CSS3 effect like 3D, shadows, emboss, outile, neons...
  • Style CSS properties : color, hover color, font size, line height, font weight...
  • Reset controls to default settings (one by one or all at once)

Recommended Google fonts combinations

The Font Customizer plugin allows you to easily combine fonts on your website. It is important to choose the right Google typography pairings for headings and paragraphs in order to catch your reader's attention. Below, you'll find some well known examples of Google fonts that worked very well together.

Performance

The Font Customizer plugin has been developped with performance in mind. All stylesheets and scripts in front and back end are minified. The generated stylesheets with the custom fonts settings are written in head section the following way :

  1. The Google font families are requested very early in head to avoid any Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) in any browsers
  2. The plugin uses the best recommended practices to optimize Google fonts load time in your webpages (learn more about the Google Fonts API)
  3. The CSS properties are loaded after your main stylesheet

To improve php performances, all settings, once saved in the customizer, are stored as database options (cached by WordPress when get_option is called) into the database : default settings, custom settings, Google fonts.

Translations

The plugin is translation ready, the default .mo and .po files are inluded in /lang.

For Developers

This plugin offers a modular structure based on a comprehensive hook’s API (learn more about WordPress filters and actions) and it uses the bests WordPress coding standards which makes the Font Customizer very easily extensible, without ever needing to modify the core structure.

Credits

Selection of font resources

General resources

Font Size Resources

Font Troubleshooting