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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by SEMW » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:42 PM UTC

scotth wrote: post #11

SEMW wrote: post #4

Looks great in Chrome, completely broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/XRMgcHp.png .

Hey SEMW, Sorry about that. The missing character detection can be a little finicky. Can I get a browser version / OS?

Heya. Other people have already replied with versions it fails on, but for completeness, I'm on Firefox 47.0 (package version: 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) on Ubuntu 16.04.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by stonogo » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:42 PM UTC

dubcanada wrote: post #3

honkhonkpants wrote: post #2

Lazy loading while I scroll makes Chrome cry.

Would you much rather it load 500 different web fonts on page load and take 50 years to load?

Pagination.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by NKCSS » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

I wish you could filter fonts based on writing style; take the letter a for instance; there can be so many was to represent the lowercase; to get complementary fonts; it would be nice to filter on those characteristics.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by dajonker » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

scotth wrote: post #11

SEMW wrote: post #4

Looks great in Chrome, completely broken in Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/XRMgcHp.png .

Hey SEMW, Sorry about that. The missing character detection can be a little finicky. Can I get a browser version / OS?

Also broken in Firefox 46.0.1 on Fedora 23, running Gnome 3.18 on Xorg 1.18.3-2/Wayland 1.9.0.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by scotth » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:45 PM UTC

SEMW wrote: post #31

scotth wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey SEMW, Sorry about that. The missing character detection can be a little finicky. Can I get a browser version / OS?

Heya. Other people have already replied with versions it fails on, but for completeness, I'm on Firefox 47.0 (package version: 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) on Ubuntu 16.04.

Thanks. Looks like Linux needs some love. We'll be fixing this up asap.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by adams_at » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

Long overdue and very nice! I would like to filter by OpenType features, though (e.g., serif font with oldstyle figures).

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by theIV » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:47 PM UTC

ericmo wrote: post #21

Very good, but needs a option for resizing. I've tried looking at monospaced fonts and couldn't see them at a size that a monospaced font would actually be used (default is huge).

Hover over one and you should see a slider to resize. You can then hit "apply to all."

That being said, I wish there were options to jump to some "standard" sizes.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by quantumet » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

ericmo wrote: post #21

Very good, but needs a option for resizing. I've tried looking at monospaced fonts and couldn't see them at a size that a monospaced font would actually be used (default is huge).

You can select a size for a given font by hovering over it to reveal the size slider and other options (desktop version at least), and then applying the size to all.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by DonaldFisk » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:49 PM UTC

scotth wrote: post #28

msoad wrote: post #17

I thought Google Fonts has Farsi fonts as well.

Is this what you're looking for? https://fonts.google.com/?subset=arabic

Farsi has four additional letters: : پ [p], چ [t͡ʃ], ژ [ʒ], and گ [ɡ].

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by macandcheese » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 5:51 PM UTC

ibero wrote: post #5

this is an update i didn't know i wanted. so many great little UX improvements to my workflow. an interesting aside, they now have the ability to toggle the background (and font color). the presets are (black on white, white on black) interestingly, one of the presets is black on yellow. i didn't realize this was such a a popular of a text/bg combination.

It's popular for display fonts and large headlines, there's been an influence of Swedish graphic design into the web lately and that's a common combination. Pretty effective for titles and headers with bold fonts.