Google fonts and character sets

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Hi all. This is my first post as I found a Webflow a two days ago :slight_smile: Nice work, but I have a problem with character set encoding on Google Fonts.

Code generated by the webflow is:

  WebFont.load({
    google: {
      families: ["Open Sans:300,400,600,700,800"]
    }
  });

This leads to wrong international chars rendering. For example for polish language "Ś’ is taken from the Arial font. This looks ugly :slight_smile:

To correct this issue, code should look like as follows:

  WebFont.load({
    google: {
      families: ["Open Sans:300,400,600,700,800:latin,latin-ext"]
    }
  });

Is it possible to add a fonts character sets on Fonts page? There would be no need to edit the index.html file after packaging.

Regards,
T.

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2

Thanks for the great explanation and the suggestion! We will implement this as soon as we can!

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3

Hi, any progress? This is important for non-english websites.
Other Google fonts have this option (http://help.webflow.com/site-settings/fonts) but default fonts, like Open Sans, doesn’t.

4

Sorry about that! We’re moving it higher in our priority. I’ll let you know when we add this support. Sorry for any inconvenience!

5

Hi,

We need this as well. Should be very easy to implement. Thank you.

6

We can workaround it by including extended characters subset:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato&subset=latin,latin-ext' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

But this will load the same font again, so page performance will be affected.

I think WebFlow team should solve it by more user friendly way, because this issue affects all “non-asci” nations.