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Name	Font Customizer
Version	1.0
Author	nikeo
Rating	80
Last updated	2014-07-03 06:06:00
Downloads	4027
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Font Customizer plugin has no negative impact on PageSpeed score.

Home page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%, while Post page PageSpeed score has been degraded by 0%

Font Customizer plugin added 35 kB of resources to the Home page and 35 kB of resources to the sample Post page.

Font Customizer plugin added 0 new host(s) to the Home page and 0 new host(s) to the sample Post page.

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Description

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, outline, 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.

Lobster + Droid Sans (more pairings)
Bitter + Source Sans Pro (more pairings)
Dancing Script & EB Garamond (more pairings)
Dosis + Open Sans (more pairings)
Fjalla One + Open Sans (more pairings)
Lato + Grand (more pairings)
Oswald + Droid (more pairings)

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 :

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