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Bilal Shahid
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Bilal Shahid

Bilal Shahid is a web developer from Karachi, Pakistan. He has several years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and he also knows how to program in C and C++. He is passionate about the open source movement, and his interests include data-driven UIs, the real-time Web, and code optimization. He was introduced to Highcharts while working on a big project dedicated to social media page management and analytics, and since then he has used it in several web projects. He works for Traffic Group Ltd., the largest independent digital services provider in the Middle East, where he works as a senior UI developer. He likes to read books in his spare time.
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Using Google Fonts with Highcharts

Google provides an easy way to include hundreds of high quality web fonts to web pages. These fonts work in all major browsers and are served by Google CDN for lightning fast delivery. These fonts can also be used with Highcharts to further polish the appearance of our charts.

Note

This section assumes that you know the basics of using Google Web Fonts. If you are not familiar with them, visit https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started.

In the following example, we will take code from the speedometer example from Chapter 6, Other Chart Types, to further style it with Google Fonts.

We will use the Merriweather family from Google Fonts and link to its style sheet from our web page inside the <head> tag:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Merriweather:400italic,700italic' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Having included the style sheet, we can actually use the font family in our code for the labels in yAxis:

yAxis: [{
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Bilal Shahid is a web developer from Karachi, Pakistan. He has several years of experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and he also knows how to program in C and C++. He is passionate about the open source movement, and his interests include data-driven UIs, the real-time Web, and code optimization. He was introduced to Highcharts while working on a big project dedicated to social media page management and analytics, and since then he has used it in several web projects. He works for Traffic Group Ltd., the largest independent digital services provider in the Middle East, where he works as a senior UI developer. He likes to read books in his spare time.
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