Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a service from Google that includes some font families and functionalities (including APIs) for using these, like on web pages:
- Free to use - Including for commercial purposes
- Pre-hosted - No need to host them yourself
- Downloadable - For use in print.
WordPress
To incorporate Google Fonts in a WordPress website, you need to take some action, like incorporating fonts through CSS [1], importing them through CSS/HTML, or through a Google Font-related plugin:
- Easy Google Fonts [2], [3], [4]
- Google Fonts Typography - aka. Google Fonts for WordPress [5]
- OMGF [6]
To get an impression:
$ wp plugin search "google fonts" Success: Showing 10 of 1010 plugins. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------+ | name | slug | rating | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------+ | Disable and Remove Google Fonts | disable-remove-google-fonts | 96 | | Fonts Plugin | Google Fonts Typography | olympus-google-fonts | 100 | | Local Google Fonts | local-google-fonts | 100 | | OMGF | GDPR/DSVGO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy. | host-webfonts-local | 94 | | Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed | google-site-kit | 82 | | WP Google Fonts | wp-google-fonts | 80 | | Toolkit for Block Theme (Gutenberg Blocks, Templates, Patterns, Google Fonts) – Twentig | twentig | 98 | | Easy Google Fonts | easy-google-fonts | 92 | | Swap Google Fonts Display | swap-google-font-display | 88 | | Embed Google Fonts | embed-google-fonts | 100 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-----------------------------+--------+
The results are the same when I search at https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/google+fonts/ - They clearly use the same database:
