Google Fonts – All font-weight not generating

Hi,

I don’t get what you mean by “You need to click twice for the drop-down fonts to open them all as it was in the previous versions”

Can you clarify this? Click where twice?
Thanks

Hello,

Yes the font will be loaded but not all the font-weight will be loaded.

AS IS : Only the selected font-weight in the list will be loaded.

TO BE : I want ALL font-weight to be loaded even if a particular font-weight isn’t selected in the theme settings panel

Thanks

Hi Artem,

Thank you for the workaround.

Tough, I think that there should be a better/easier way to do this by adding a theme settings :

Load all font-weights : Yes/No

by default : no

Enable this setting if you wish to load all the font-weights of any particular font used on the frontend of your site. Disable if you wish to load only the font-weights selected in Typography section

Could you take this into account please?

Thanks
Simon

Hello,

I’ve adjusted my comment above, please check the modification.

Indeed, it’s bad for performance but why do I ask it? There is a good reason.

Assume that I use only 1 font (e.g. Lato) and I select 2 font-weights on the theme settings (400 and 500). This means that only those 2 font-weights will be loaded on the site.

Now the problem is the following. If I build a page on WPBakery and I select 300 for instance in the visual composer. This 300 will not be loaded (even tough I want this 300).

There comes your workaround that is now to add this 300 in the Advanced Typography => OK clear.

But what if I use many font-weights across 2 fonts? This becomes annoying for every site that I build, I’d need to always add 1 by 1 in Advanced Typography the font-weights I want to add.

I hope this clarifies my point
Thanks

I understand your answer also. I just think that, if well described, users won’t misunderstand it. I’m perfectly aware indeed that in general 2 fonts should be the maximum and 2-3 font-weights too.

However, the current way it works isn’t the best neither. So I’d appreciate if you could find a solution so I don’t need to enter each font-weight 1 by 1 per font.

A setting as described above should be fine, with also

We recommend you to keep this disabled.

Of course if you find an even better way : automatically detect used font-weights across the site, then it would be awesome => i’m sure you could look into OMGF on how they do it.

Thanks
Simon