Using the Google Font API`s Italic Option with Multiple Fonts

If the name still doesn't ring any bells to you, let me point you quickly in the right direction: the Google Font API is a brand new web service offered by the search engine giant that will let you embed for free a respectable number of commercial fonts on your web pages by means of a set of intuitive, easy-to-follow options. While the service is still in its beta version (as is true of many services provided by Google), in its current state it yields quite impressive results. It makes it easy to download several fonts at the same time for further use and specify if the fonts  must be served in their italic and bold versions.

Naturally, if you've been a faithful follower of this article series, you're already familiar with some of the handy features that the Google Font API brings to the table. In the two articles that precede this one I explained how to use the API for embedding multiple font families into the same (X)HTML document and how to work with the italicized versions of them via the "italic" query string argument.

It's important to note, however, that so far I've only demonstrated how to utilize the "italic" option when using a single font family. This doesn't mean that the option can't be used with multiple typefaces with the same ease. In this third part of the series I'm going to show how to use Google's Font API for decorating some text-based elements of a web page using the italic versions of a couple of font families.

Are you ready to learn the full details of this process? Then start reading right now!