Blogger Adds 40 Google Web Fonts To Template Designer!

Update Jan 2011: 
Blogger has since added more fonts, making the total of 77 web fonts!  It also made them accessible to all Blogger users,  instead of only to Blogger In Draft previously.

When it comes to font selection, the Web has always been limited to web-safe fonts. In other words, you are stuck with a few most commonly installed fonts such as Arial, Courier, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet and Verdana.

Web fonts provide a workaround to this limitation. They are kept online, on web servers, and as such they don’t have to be installed on every user’s computer. As long as you link the fonts to your page, everyone viewing your page will be able to see the fonts.

Google has it’s own set of web fonts, hosted on Google Font Directory. And I have even written a tutorial on applying Google Web Fonts.

Since then, it got better and easier. Blogger, via  Blogger in Draft has integrated Google Web Fonts into the Template Designer. There are now 40 exciting new (web) fonts in Blogger in Draft for you to choose from!  And according to Blogger in Draft blog, a lot more web fonts are coming.

To apply the new fonts, simply:

1. Log in to Blogger In Draft Blogger.com (opens in a new window).
2. Go to Design > Template Designer > Advanced. 
   
3. Select the type of text you’d like to change (e.g. Post Title, Page Text etc.).
4. Pick your preferred font from the list.

Here is the full list of available fonts in Blogger in Draft:

Original fonts

Arial, Courier, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet and Verdana.

New Web fonts

Allerta Allerta Stencil Arimo Arvo Bentham Calibri Calligraffitti Cambria Cantarell Cardo Cherry Cream Soda Chewy Coming Soon Consolas Copse Corsiva Cousine Covered By Your Grace Crafty Girls Crimson Text Crushed Cuprum Droid Sans Droid Sans Mono Droid Serif Fontdiner Swanky

GFS Didot GFS Neohellenic Geo Gruppo Hanuman Homemade Apple IM Fell DW Pica IM Fell DW Pica SC IM Fell Double Pica IM Fell Double Pica SC IM Fell English IM Fell English SC IM Fell French Canon IM Fell French Canon SC IM Fell Great Primer IM Fell Great Primer SC Inconsolata Irish Growler Josefin Sans Josefin Slab Just Another Hand Kenia Kranky Lobster Luckiest Guy

Merriweather Molengo Mountains of Christmas Neucha Neuton Nobile OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT Old Standard TT PT Sans PT Sans Caption PT Sans Narrow Permanent Marker Philosopher Puritan Reenie Beanie Rock Salt Schoolbell,Slackey Sunshiney Syncopate Tinos UnifrakturMaguntia Unkempt Vollkorn Walter Turncoat Yanone Kaffeesatz

These web fonts are compatible with the following browsers:

• Google Chrome: version 4.249.4+
• Mozilla Firefox: version: 3.5+
• Apple Safari: version 3.1+
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 7+
• Opera: version 10.5+

Note: From what I see, these web fonts will only work when applied via Template Designer. Applying them directly in the CSS (using font-family) won’t work, unless of course you use this method.

Enjoy!