New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by jamesjyu » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:20 PM UTC

New Google Web Fonts Interface
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Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

#2

Post by hydrazine » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:23 PM UTC

Super like! Can't wait to try it. Looks much easier than tinkering with raw CSS.

Edit: 2 lines of code were all I needed to add. Ridiculously easy.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

#3

Post by jackpirate » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

How is this useful if everyone else hasn't already downloaded those fonts? Everyone has Ariel. That's why it is so popular.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

#4

Post by cdcarter » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:38 PM UTC

This is fantastic! I've been waiting and waiting for Web Fonts to expand, and now I have a lot more choices than Syncopate and Raleway.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by hydrazine » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

jackpirate wrote: post #3

How is this useful if everyone else hasn't already downloaded those fonts? Everyone has Ariel. That's why it is so popular.

The fonts are delivered from Google in real-time and don't have to be pre-downloaded. That's the beauty of it!

But of course Arial is still a good default.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by 201studio » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:44 PM UTC

How many awesome things can Google roll out in a day?

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by tobobo » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 10:14 PM UTC

Wow - I've never seen a cleaner font browsing interface, and they make using the fonts you look at so easy I didn't even realize I was doing it.

Let's hope the Web Fonts API doesn't go the way of the Translate API, or many webpages will be rendered in incorrect fonts. Horror!!

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by thedjpetersen » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 10:14 PM UTC

Shoot right after I wrote this too... https://github.com/thedjpetersen/Google-Font-Api-Scraper

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by notJim » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 10:28 PM UTC

jackpirate wrote: post #3

How is this useful if everyone else hasn't already downloaded those fonts? Everyone has Ariel. That's why it is so popular.

You can embed font declarations in CSS (the @font-face declaration), specifying a path to a download. The browser will download the font and show it on web pages with the declaration.

Google offers an array of freely-available (open source, actually, I think, but I'm not 100% sure) fonts that are hosted on their servers that you can use.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by hsmyers » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 10:48 PM UTC

Keeps getting better with each iteration! That said, I'd still like to see some pi fonts and printer's ornaments...