I like this a lot. I'd love to see a monospace fonts filter. Although, saying that, it looks to my eye like the only monospace font on there is Inconsolata.
New Google Web Fonts Interface
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Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#42This is a great update to their existing library. It reminds me a lot of Fontcase and similar font browsing apps. It's great to see that their library keeps growing. Definitely going to make this a first-stop before working on designs from here on out. Thanks, Google.
Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#43This 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.
Don't pop the champagne just yet. Virtually all fonts listed in Google's directory render poorly on Windows in larger pixel sizes. This is caused by the lack of ClearType-specific hinting in these fonts, and it leads to the appearance of so-called "nipples" - odd pixels sticking out at the top and the bottom of glyphs and from thin horizontal strokes. More bad news is that properly hinting fonts for ClearType is a re…
Maybe it's Windows that should change?
Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#44I still don't see the point of a service like this. With a tiny bit more work you have them on your own server, and you have all the control. If Google tomorrow decides to stop serving fonts, your design won't be broken.
With some services I understand people rather have it externally has it's a hassle to do it yourself, but @font-face is too easy to not do it.
Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#45I still don't see the point of a service like this. With a tiny bit more work you have them on your own server, and you have all the control. If Google tomorrow decides to stop serving fonts, your design won't be broken. With some services I understand people rather have it externally has it's a hassle to do it yourself, but @font-face is too easy to not do it.
Note they let you download the .ttf's... But the idea is the same as using google apis for things like jquery. It lets you prototype quickly without having to load a new font on your server every time you want to test something different, if this gets popular and you're using a popular font chances are it'll already be in the user's browser cache, and most importantly from my perspective there isn't any ambiguity with this list as to which fonts I can and can't legally redistribute.
Obviously don't count on Google to always be there for you.
Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#46I still don't see the point of a service like this. With a tiny bit more work you have them on your own server, and you have all the control. If Google tomorrow decides to stop serving fonts, your design won't be broken. With some services I understand people rather have it externally has it's a hassle to do it yourself, but @font-face is too easy to not do it.
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Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#47They once had some Arabic fonts. Where did they go? http://i.imgur.com/L5hSF.png This is a snapshot of their IO's session video.
I don't think those were ever publicly available -- probably an internal test. I still had a Google Web Fonts tab open from last night, and it only shows options for Cyrillic, Greek, Khmer, and Latin: http://i.imgur.com/T3sh5.png
Re: New Google Web Fonts Interface
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't pop the champagne just yet. Virtually all fonts listed in Google's directory render poorly on Windows in larger pixel sizes. This is caused by the lack of ClearType-specific hinting in these fonts, and it leads to the appearance of so-called "nipples" - odd pixels sticking out at the top and the bottom of glyphs and from thin horizontal strokes. More bad news is that properly hinting fonts for ClearType is a re…
At I/O they seemed to be talking about some automated hinting process to try and fix this. It won't be as good a something hand-hinted by a professional but it might be good enough for some uses.
FontSpring uses auto-hinting [1], which is a well-known approach and it is a step forward. It still though vastly inferior to manual hinting and tends to produce artifacts of other kinds. Also there appears to be no ClearType-specific version of it at the moment.
[1] http://www.fontspring.com/fontface - first table, 3rd row down