I spent some time diving into Twenty Seventeen in preparation to develop for the theme directory. I was curious as to how the developers of very popular theme would enqueue a Google Font. I am no stranger to using a @import tag in the stylesheet, but I assumed there had to be a more sustainable solution. What I found was a thoughtful way of adding a font which I have digested into a gist below.
Handling your Google Fonts in this manner allows translators of your theme to disregard a font that may hinder the translation.
/**
* Register custom fonts.
*/
function themeslug_fonts_url() {
$fonts_url = '';
$fonts = array();
$subsets = 'latin,latin-ext';
/*
* Translators: If there are characters in your language that are not supported
* by Oswald, translate this to 'off'. Do not translate into your own language.
*/
if ( 'off' !== _x( 'on', 'Oswald font: on or off', 'themeslug' ) ) {
$fonts[] = 'Oswald:400,700';
}
/*
* Translators: If there are characters in your language that are not supported
* by Montserrat, translate this to 'off'. Do not translate into your own language.
*/
if ( 'off' !== _x( 'on', 'Montserrat font: on or off', 'themeslug' ) ) {
If you are in a similar position as I am, trying to sharpen your WordPress skillset, I highly recommend tearing into some of the default themes. They are a plethora of knowledge.
