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Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by beck5 »

tobobo wrote: post #7

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!!

Not quite the same load. Google fonts is more like Google Libraries than translate.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by StacyC »

Nice improvement to the interface. I've just recently started using these fonts a bit and I really like the service. The collection is growing too so there's a good variety there. Nice job, Google.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by natesm »

hydrazine wrote: post #5
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.

"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial is a better default! Show the good one to those of us that have it (all Mac OS X and iOS users).

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by sad_hacker »

habitatforus wrote: post #11

Judging by the other comments, it's just me, but the fonts look worse now. They aren't smooth at all. Why?

I noticed the same... they have never been smooth on Firefox (Windows 7 64bit), but now they aren't even smooth in IE... can anyone else confirm that?

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by aik »

habitatforus wrote: post #11

Judging by the other comments, it's just me, but the fonts look worse now. They aren't smooth at all. Why?

Most other comments are commenting on the interface, which is definitely great and impressive. As for the fonts, they're not smooth for me either.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by cageface »

StacyC wrote: post #13

Nice improvement to the interface. I've just recently started using these fonts a bit and I really like the service. The collection is growing too so there's a good variety there. Nice job, Google.

I went to Google fonts yesterday for a design project for the first time in at least a year and was very happy to see how much the collection has grown. This new interface is icing on the cake. Making these fonts so easy to use really opens the doors to much more creative and effective use of type on the web.

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by XLcommerce »

habitatforus wrote: post #11

Judging by the other comments, it's just me, but the fonts look worse now. They aren't smooth at all. Why?

Cleartype wreaks havoc on webfonts. Turning it off gives you smooth fonts, but jaggy regular text >:|

Strangely IE6 (and 7? i think) are OK even with cleartype on.

There is a css hack to get font smoothing on windows:

h1{ text-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.0001); /* Transparent Shadow make some kind of webkit font smoothing kick in */ }

Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface

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Post by jackpirate »

notJim wrote: post #9
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.

That makes a lot more sense... I'm a little behind the times I guess with my CSS.
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