How to make Google Fonts work in IE?

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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.

I included the font, as Google instructs, thus:

<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans+Std+Light"  
 rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and added its name to the front of a font family in CSS thus:

body {
font-family: "Josefin Sans Std Light", "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
font-size: 16px;
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: hidden;
color: #05121F;
}

Works like a charm in Chrome, Firefox, Safari. No dice in IE 8. Anybody know why?

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11 Answers

After my investigation, I came up to this solution:

//writing the below line into the top of my style.css file
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Assistant:200,300,400,600,700,800&subset=hebrew');

MUST OBSERVE: We must need to write the font-weight correctly of this font. For example: font-weight:900; will not work as we have not included 900 like 200,300,400,600,700,800 into the URL address while importing from Google with the above link. We can add or include 900 to the above URL, but that will work only if the above Google Font has this option while embedding.

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