How to make Google Fonts work in IE?

Question

I\'ve been developing a site that uses the Google Fonts API. It\'s great, and supposedly has been tested in IE, but when testing in IE 8 the fonts simply don\'t get styled.<

Answer 1

Looks like IE8-IE7 can't understand multiple Google Web Font styles through the same file request using the link tags href.

These two links helped me figure this out:

• See this open Google issue, and look at the comments.
• Also see this StackOverlow Answer Google Web Fonts don't work in IE8

The only way I have gotten it to work in IE7-IE8 is to only have one Google Web Font request. And only have one font style in the href of the link tag:

So normally you would have this, declaring multiple font styles in the same request:

But in IE7-IE8 add a IE conditional and specify each Google font style separately and it will work:

Hope this can help others!