Google Web Fonts don't work in IE8

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TIMEX picture TIMEX · Jan 29, 2012 · Viewed 24.8k times · Source

I'm using this to link to some Google Fonts:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=IM+Fell+English+SC|Snippet|Sarina|Crushed|Caesar+Dressing|Montez|Bad+Script|Sofia|Fontdiner+Swanky|Just+Me+Again+Down+Here|Voltaire|Geo|Coming+Soon|Wellfleet|Passion+One|Rock+Salt|Homemade+Apple|Meddon|Rosario' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

I'm using this code, which works in some browsers:

<span style="font-size: 110px;font-family:montez;"><b>Abcdefg</b></span>

Why doesn't the font doesn't appear in IE8? http://jsfiddle.net/3NbE5/

Answer

Ricardo Casta&#241;eda picture Ricardo Castañeda · Jan 29, 2012

It seems that IE doesn't support multiple fonts in the href:
http://jsfiddle.net/3NbE5/3/

You had this href:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=IM+Fell+English+SC|Snippet|Sarina|Crushed|Caesar+Dressing|Montez|Bad+Script|Sofia|Fontdiner+Swanky|Just+Me+Again+Down+Here|Voltaire|Geo|Coming+Soon|Wellfleet|Passion+One|Rock+Salt|Homemade+Apple|Meddon|Rosario' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>


After removing the other fonts it worked:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=IM+Fell+English+SC|Montez' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

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