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Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by cleverjake » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:17 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #162

Mahn wrote: post #152

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> I'd be delighted if both IE and Edge went away forever. To be fair Edge is a pretty solid browser these days, I don't think you can put them on the same league. I've been using it for some time now and other than a slightly different font rendering engine I have yet to find a fault on it; everything works like you would expect in a modern browser. Development wise, we test for Edge ocasionally and so far we haven't…

SVG rendering is still wonky, FWIW.

how so?

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by microcolonel » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:19 PM UTC

Cacti wrote: post #111

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.

Which Google services are you talking about? I've been running Chromium for about 6 years as my main browser and I don't remember a site even detecting that it wasn't Chrome, let alone pestering me.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by chrismorgan » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:23 PM UTC

This is nice and all (apart from an astonishing—even for Google—degree of browser compatibility regression), but what I really want is for the actual fonts to be updated. Crimson Text, for example, is an outdated version of the font, which it breaks a little further too. Upstream (https://github.com/skosch/Crimson) has seen substantial improvements, but Google has never updated it, ignoring the author’s pleas.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by kevinali1 » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:27 PM UTC

laumars wrote: post #73

SEMW wrote: post #4

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

I get the same in every browser I try on Linux. I don't get the point of this. I really don't. While far from perfect, web fonts have largely been a solved problem for a while now, so why are Google reinventing this wheel? This seems to happen all the time with the web; people taking old ideas and reinventing them again and again, in yet more bloated ways, breaking things for millions.

I don't think they're reinventing anything. Google Fonts has been offering webfonts for many years. All they did here was change the website.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:27 PM UTC

bobwaycott wrote: post #154

jaseemabid wrote: post #118

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Refreshing to see something other than lorem ipsum.

Also, lazy dogs who find themselves jumped over by speedy brown foxes.

While being watched by stone human-lions that are adored by birds.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by donut2d » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:50 PM UTC

cleverjake wrote: post #171

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

SVG rendering is still wonky, FWIW.

how so?

I recently ran into this. I was putting an SVG into an tag and sized it with CSS. In every other browser, it worked as expected. The SVG filled the space and stretched to the set dimensions. In EDGE, the SVG appeared tiny at the top-left of the space the took up. I could not figure out a way around it. Had to convert it to a PNG. It seems that it handles SVGs as background images just fine.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by droom » Tue, Jun 14, 2016, 11:52 PM UTC

pimlottc wrote: post #144

stupidcar wrote: post #61

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1. Click a font's plus icon 2. Click on "1 Family Selected" 3. Copy the embed link from the dialog. How is that hard?

Once you know what to do, it's easy, but it's not immediately obvious that you need to "Select" a font in order to use it (as opposed to, say, clicking through to its page), or that clicking on the notification would do anything.

I agree. Even clicking the plus icon suggests there'll be more than one type family resource (something you'd want to avoid by default).

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by Rzah » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 12:00 AM UTC

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…

My Version 6 (OS X 10.8), Safari is rejected as well, I should be using 'Chrome, Firefox, or Safari' apparently. By incrementing the useragent I discovered that it loads and all works just fine when I pretend I'm using Safari 8, there's no 'proceed at your own risk' link so I can only chalk it up to google being dicks.

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 12:07 AM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #56

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.

This is kinda funny given this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11906170

Re: Google Fonts Redesigned

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Post by hirsin » Wed, Jun 15, 2016, 12:16 AM UTC

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…

Particularly since if you spoof the UA in F12 the site works perfectly fine as far as I can tell, although I haven't exercised the entire site. (Disclaimer - on latest public Win 10 build, 14361)