[solved] website logo branding purely via google font? - no image?

[BoKr]

Sorry for asking this but I never read something about this nor do I know anything about the question that bugs me:

 

Can I use google font in the header.tpl in order to create my logo branding`?

 

You  know I build create German cars and I since I am so progressive I decided to get rid of our great BMW logo on our new eco car website. Instead of the logo I want only the three letters: 'BMW'

Since these are only letter I thought I could make use of google font database and the BMW letters would lokk sharp and crispy under all conditions and devices...

 

Is this possible? Does it makes sense? Speed loading should be better or vice versa since there is an external script in the header and that one is loaded for each page though only kilobytes...

 

 

Thanks to those who enlighten me

Edited April 1, 2014 by B.Köring (see edit history)

[vekia]

you can use any method you want, 

it's not necessary to use image as a logo.

you can remove code for image from header.tpl and instead of it add 

{l s='BMW'}

 

of course with some styling like

<span class='textlogo'>{l s='BMW'}</span>

 

and in global.css define styles to this logo

 

.textlogo {font-family: someGoogleFont; font-size:30px;}

[dioniz]

Why not use it. It's easy to implement it. In your header.tpl find this code:

<div id="header_logo">
    <a href="{$base_dir}" title="{$shop_name|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}">
        <img class="logo img-responsive" src="{$logo_url}" alt="{$shop_name|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}"{if $logo_image_width} width="{$logo_image_width}"{/if}{if $logo_image_height} height="{$logo_image_height}"{/if}/>
    </a>
</div>

and change it to this:

<div id="header_logo">
    <a class="mylogo" href="{$base_dir}" title="{$shop_name|escape:'html':'UTF-8'}">
       {l s='BMW'}
    </a>
</div>

I added class mylogo so you can style it later.

[BoKr]

Thank you very much!

 

I will dig deeper into this and see if I can find any nice font matching our toys branch. We run a Waldorf toys shop and at the moment we make use of the typical Waldorf font. You can find it by searching for anthropos font. However, I maintain the sentiment that we could and should! make use of something more fresh.

May be I can make it happen

 

PS:

Perhaps this forum could also benefit from a 'hire a designer gun' section.

Edited April 1, 2014 by B.Köring (see edit history)