Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory
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#2Lato is one of my current favorites, glad you included it. Orbitron, Jura and Cabin also work well in certain places.
I do wish there were more fonts with 3+ styles (reg, bold and ital at least), though I'm sure that'll change with time.
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#3Very nice list! I recently also wrote on this topic: http://sachagreif.com/google-webfonts-that-dont-suck/
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#4Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about that though since I hadn't access to one in a long time. But fonts in Chrome are plain ugly, someone please turn on AA.
FF on the left, Chrome on the right: http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png
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#5Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about that though since I hadn't access to one in a long time. But fonts in Chrome are plain ugly, someone please turn on AA. FF on the left, Chrome on the right: http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png
Hm, not sure what happened there. Chrome isn't applying any anti-aliasing to those fonts. No greyscale, no sub-pixel, nothing.
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#6Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about that though since I hadn't access to one in a long time. But fonts in Chrome are plain ugly, someone please turn on AA. FF on the left, Chrome on the right: http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png
Hm, not sure what happened there. Chrome isn't applying any anti-aliasing to those fonts. No greyscale, no sub-pixel, nothing.
Noticed it, too. Pretty disappointing after waiting years to really be able to play with great typography. Especially painful coming from a Google site rendered inside a Google browser.
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#71 web page
22 HTTP requests
442.61KB transferred
Thankfully we're not facing an increasing use of mobile devices on high latency networks. Oh.
Platform and browser defaults have come so far that nowadays my preferred font stack is this:
font-family: sans-serif;Re: Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory
#8Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about that though since I hadn't access to one in a long time. But fonts in Chrome are plain ugly, someone please turn on AA. FF on the left, Chrome on the right: http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png
Chrome on Windows doesn't use the DirectWrite text rendering engine as opposed to Firefox or IE. See details here:
http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google...
This has been an open issue since 2009. I'm surprised it still hasn't been fixed even though it's a daily nuisance in the world of beautiful web fonts and large type sizes:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944
EDIT: an official DirectWrite port of Chrome/Win is currently under development:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/...
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#91 web page 22 HTTP requests 442.61KB transferred Thankfully we're not facing an increasing use of mobile devices on high latency networks. Oh. Platform and browser defaults have come so far that nowadays my preferred font stack is this: font-family: sans-serif;
Most sites aren't going to be demoing a bunch of different fonts like this. They'd likely pick one for headers and one for copy.
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#10So what are the first two fonts? That's frustrating they're not named.