Using & Optimizing Google Fonts - Colt's Code Camp

In this video we cover how to use Google Fonts, how they work behind the scenes, and how to optimize your usage of them.

[michelribbens]

This series is one of the reasons I got back to previously bought web dev courses and started to review them. It made me realize again how much I like it and that I should give it try to become a pro. So last weekend, I signed up for a new online remote web dev bootcamp, and after passing the tests I got enrolled yesterday and started immediately with the prework.

This crazy time is definitely hard for all and financially it will be very difficult for most of us, but let's try to turn things around and make sure we all get out of this with more knowledge and a better perspective for the future. There's a lot of great free content online, and on platforms like Udemy you can get so many great courses for $10/$15 (including some excellent ones by Colt of course). And if you really want to go for it, more and more programming bootcamps are now offering the possibility to learn remotely and have financing options so won't have to pay thousands of dollars/euro's up front to enroll

[christin]

This all started when I was bored a while back and stumbled across your account. I personally thought I'd never be able to code and for the record, I'm only 12! Thus far, I've had the experience of a life time and I've been able to learn something both interesting and fascinating. For this I must say thank you, Colt, for being a great teacher!

[dimentiosuncle]

Can't stress enough how much I love these vids! I always wait expectantly and check every two hours for a new one !

[pranavsonawane]

Thank you so much for this quality content....your slides are really great and expressing.... ♥ 😜

[MaXxXiMuS]

Back again! Thanks colt. Gonna sneak ahead in the Web Dev course. Loving the production on these and great for review!

[dhdaikon]

That optimization! Glad I stumbled upon your channel during my lunch. Cheers. Thanks for sharing!

[xileets]

Recently Unemployed, and bored, and studying engineering, so kinda related. But Colt, you're actually one of the best teachers I've had in CS. =)

[tlyke]

Excellent as always, enjoy the short topics to practice and pace the days - thanks Colt !

[irinabobina]

I love the pictures you use for the intro. "Hay" XD

[ghazini]

didn't know about text option. Thanks Colt!!!

[yashsaxena]

Hello sir,
I wanted to ask, is this video series only for beginners or is there anything reserved for some intermediate and advanced learners.
I'm a computer science student who knows Frontend and basic js, will there be content to help me dive in deep? Like backend tutorials or something else?

I really want to learn and improve my skills, I would be really thankful if you give me a little bit.
:)

[crt]

Great courses Colt!! I enjoy the way you teach. Are you gonna make a video about grid and flex box??

[hiwayshoes]

Hi Colt, I’m learning a great deal from your coding tutorials, thanks so much! A question about Google Fonts: what is the difference between adding the font link in the HTML and importing the link in CSS? I’m unable to find a good answer. Thank you for your videos... Cheers!

[BrainAboze]

I would love a content from you on CSS grid

[atmospheric_b]

Thanks, Colt! That feature with text in link is raaly nice one

[physiquesthetique]

Thank you so much for this tuto, it is great! I was wondering... what difference does it make to import the fonts with the CSS @import url('...') instead of the HTML <link> tag?

[CartmansXbox]

Thanks for another great video, Colt! I've got one quick question. I see Google Fonts has a slider for different font sizes. I'm assuming that's just there to show us the fonts in different sizes and that we don't have to make additional downloads for different font sizes like we need to do for different font weights/italics, is that correct?

[gavinfurtado]

Thank you so much! I've learnt so much from these videos!

[hrishie]

I want to request specific characters for one font but all the characters for another font. When I do "&text=" both the fonts are downloading only the specific characters. What to do? Should I make separate request for each font?
Please reply.

[vadosic]

thank you!
what font are you using for VS Code?
please)