How to add more fonts?

I *think* you have to add the extra font information in the theme.json file, by editing this section:

“typography”: {
“dropCap”: false,
“fontFamilies”: [
{
“fontFamily”: “-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,\”Segoe UI\”,Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,\”Helvetica Neue\”,sans-serif”,
“name”: “System Font”,
“slug”: “system-font”
},
{
“fontFamily”: “\”Source Serif Pro\”, serif”,
“name”: “Source Serif Pro”,
“slug”: “source-serif-pro”
}

Hi there! If you’re comfortable editing theme files, then yes, in order to make more fonts available, you’ll need to add font families there to that area of Theme.json:

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/block-editor/how-to-guides/themes/theme-json/#presets

You’ll also need to use a separate function to enqueue the font files like you would in any other theme. Twenty Twenty-Two handles that here for its default font:

https://themes.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/twentytwentytwo/1.0/functions.php#L90

Eventually, a fonts API should hopefully allow theme authors a way to handle this entirely from within theme.json.

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/35591

For users who want to add more fonts to their site and aren’t comfortable making these changes, I’d suggest looking to see if a plugin exists that does this for you.

Hi @timoelliott and @kjellr,

Thank you very much for your answers, but I’m not comfortable editing code. ??

I like the theme so I’m going to wait for a while, maybe they will add more fonts.

I don’t understand why everyone says “Don’t install too many plugins” but the solution for many basic things is always “Install a plugin”. ??

Hi,
I too was looking for a solution to add more fonts without changing the code.

I added this module that add google fonts to my site – and everything looks o.k. – but still in the header section it’s the wrong font.

So I added this to my CSS via the Dashboard => Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS:

* {font-family:”Courier New”, Courier, monospace}

And I think now it’s working.

I really hope that in next releases changing fonts will be added to the theme directly

Regards,
Ram