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Google still needs text to be able to rank your site but web fonts can be great alternative images. Sites with heavy animation or graphics provide very little content that can be read by Google. This is why Matt Cutts suggests using Google Fonts for appealing word art that can be crawled and indexed.
Google Web Fonts is nothing more than CSS or JavaScript that are being served from Google’s server using an API.
First put the code from your choose font in the <head> tag.
<link href=’http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Averia+Gruesa+Libre’ rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’>
Then add the CSS to your style sheet.
font-family: ‘Averia Gruesa Libre’, cursive;
Go to Google Web Fonts now to start messing around.