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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).
Shoot right after I wrote this too... https://github.com/thedjpetersen/Google-Font-Api-Scraper
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.
To quote from the "introduction" dialog [0]: "Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web".
Looking further, the "about" page [1] provides a bit more information: "All the Google web fonts are open source. That means that you are free to to use them in any way you want, independent of whether you're working on a private or commercial project."
I'm not sure what license they're using, though . . . I can't find anything but Google's standard "terms of service" license anywhere on the site.
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 */ }
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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.
> (open source, actually, I think, but I'm not 100% sure) To quote from the "introduction" dialog [0]: "Hundreds of free, open-source fonts optimized for the web". Looking further, the "about" page [1] provides a bit more information: "All the Google web fonts are open source. That means that you are free to to use them in any way you want, independent of whether you're working on a private or commercial project." I'…
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.