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Google Fonts Redesigned

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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by Cacti »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #43

"Your browser is not currently supported. Google Fonts works best on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari." Google still treating Edge users like trash, I see[0]. Microsoft Edge works fine for the vast majority of websites, and a block like this telling you to get a different browser is incredibly painful. If you tell me I need a different browser, I'm going to find a different company or website to do business with. [0]Gmail…

Chromium of all browsers gets pestered all the time by Google services. It's... odd.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by WorldMaker »

lallysingh wrote: post #96
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #43

"Your browser is not currently supported. Google Fonts works best on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari." Google still treating Edge users like trash, I see[0]. Microsoft Edge works fine for the vast majority of websites, and a block like this telling you to get a different browser is incredibly painful. If you tell me I need a different browser, I'm going to find a different company or website to do business with. [0]Gmail…

It's fair play after the IE-ification of the web before that.

Is it? The complaint at the time was the number of websites that outright blocked non-IE browsers rather than just letting the non-IE browsers try their best to render the pages, closing the web. Just because the tables are now turned it's appropriate for Google to break the open web? It seems evil from the standpoint of trying to support an open web (the arguments are the same now as they were back then), and it seems peculiarly childish and immature for a company as big as Google.

Not to mention if you were going to do it based on standards support and caniuse.com statistics, it's Safari now that is the one that lags behind. Shouldn't Google also start blocking Safari now? Isn't that closer to "fair play"?

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by alistairjcbrown »

zy1t wrote: post #46

This redesign is awesome, but I think it might have killed my side project. I’ve been working on a site that offers google fonts with better visuals and search by font feature (x-height, stroke contrast, etc) functionality. Sunk 30+ hours into it designing + coding up the front end while my friend works on programmatically tagging the font on the backend. I want to continue working on my project, but it now feels a l…

I'd love to see a search interface for all webfonts, powered by an open database of data from across all the major webfont providers. If this interface is independent of Google fonts, then you can apply it to any set of font data.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by zy1t »

amelius wrote: post #66
zy1t wrote: post #46

This redesign is awesome, but I think it might have killed my side project. I’ve been working on a site that offers google fonts with better visuals and search by font feature (x-height, stroke contrast, etc) functionality. Sunk 30+ hours into it designing + coding up the front end while my friend works on programmatically tagging the font on the backend. I want to continue working on my project, but it now feels a l…

You could generalize the tool, so it also works for other fonts?

That's a good idea. I'd have to look into how to get copies of licensed fonts to analyze. Actually paying for a license would make this project completely unfeasible.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by thomaspark »

Lovely redesign that addresses usability complaints I had with the old version. In fact I built my own search tool for Google Fonts a few months back because of these issues:

http://fontcdn.org

Some of my critiques of the old version:

http://thomaspark.co/2015/08/a-better-way-to-search-google-f...

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by vetinari »

scotth wrote: post #35
SEMW wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

FYI, same thing in firefox-47.0-4 in Fedora 23. Works fine in google-chrome-stable-51.0.2704.84-1.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by jaseemabid »

di wrote: post #9

If anyone is curious about the sample text: * "All their equipment and instruments are alive." (Mr. Spaceship, by Philip K. Dick) * "A red flair silhouetted the jagged edge of a wing." (The Jewels of Aptor, by Samuel R. Delany) * "I watched the storm, so beautiful yet terrific." (Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley) * "Almost before we knew it, we had left the ground." (A Trip to Venus, by John Munro) * "A shining crescent…

Refreshing to see something other than lorem ipsum.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by Navarr »

plgs wrote: post #75
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #43

"Your browser is not currently supported. Google Fonts works best on Chrome, Firefox, or Safari." Google still treating Edge users like trash, I see[0]. Microsoft Edge works fine for the vast majority of websites, and a block like this telling you to get a different browser is incredibly painful. If you tell me I need a different browser, I'm going to find a different company or website to do business with. [0]Gmail…

Google Inbox is also blocked on Edge, which is sad. I wonder why they're blocking it. As you said, Edge works fine with most websites, it's not IE6...

Service Workers, maybe?
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