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Google Fonts Redesigned

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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by icehawk219 »

Scarbutt wrote: post #16
SEMW wrote: post #4

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

No one tests on firefox anymore, is sad how firefox is being ignored more and more everyday.

From my experience with front-end dev's it's not that they don't test in Firefox but rather they only test in Chrome. I've worked with FE devs who insisted it was unreasonable to expect them to test in all the major browsers.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by scotth »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #42
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?

I'm on Edge, scotth, can you unblock my browser?

Yep. We have it in the works. Some bugs came up before launch that we didn't have a chance to get to, but it's coming.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by noxxten »

quantumet wrote: post #38
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.

The font size slider is incredibly annoying. There should at least be a field to manually input a size as well. Having fonts jump from 8px - 22px with no space between is useless.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by manigandham »

stolsvik wrote: post #55

Are these free to use? Open and permissive license? Should be the first thing that was mentioned on the site.

Yes. It's on the about page.

https://fonts.google.com/about

> All the fonts in our catalog are free and open source, making beautiful type accessible to anyone for any project. This means you can share favorites and collaborate easily with friends and colleagues. Google Fonts takes care of all the licensing and hosting, ensuring that the latest and greatest version of any font is available to everyone.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

msoad wrote: post #41
scotth wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No, I Farsi fonts are a little different

Not all characters in the font are displayed. If you look at Open Sans, the description says it has 897 characters, but only 290 are shown.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by nilved »

eyeareque wrote: post #58

What is in it for google to give these fonts away? Does it help them track people or learn about sites that use them?

Yes, you hotlink the web font files from their servers. Much like their public DNS servers, their public font registry pays them in data.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by torbit »

thedaemon wrote: post #26

I kept looking at the fonts to see what changes they made. Then I realized that the website was redesigned, not the fonts. Perhaps the title should be changed to reflect this?

sounded correct to me. You just misunderstood, undrstandable. "Google Font" is the name of the product. If the title was "Google's fonts redesigned", then I'd agree.
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