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Is it against the TOS to download the font and host it on your own server? It's very simple to do even though they don't give instructions.
I am in the middle of a redesign and the new design uses Droid Serif. I wanted to avoid an extra HTTP request and bundle the WOFF font file in the CSS (using data URIs). The other option was to host the font on my server to avoid the DNS lookup for yet another domain. (CSS is in the critical path for page loads). Both are easy to do but I abandoned both of those ideas after watching this interview http://www.youtube.…
Trillion visits logged. Just remember, kids, that it's the only reason Google Fonts exist.
Yep, like everything, it's a trade off. In return you get a very robust platform and free fonts.
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So you are claiming that reason of very existence of Google Fonts is to collect not-so-useful-and-easily-could-be-collected-by-other-services-of-Google data? Can we stop the whole Google bashing it is getting ridiculous.
They are an advertising company, which pretty much makes them data collection company. Its completely fair to question their motivations.
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Only reason huh? nothing to do with prettifying the web and making developers happy, because that doesn't benefit Google in any way...
If they cared about that they'd keep Reader open.
This shows MSIE at ~18% split between IE10 and IE8 with a bit of an edge to the former. These are the most optimistic stats I've ever seen. Still, a trillion pageviews is nothing to sneeze at. I guess for normal none-corporate browsing OldIE has really truly actually fallen below 10% and can finally be ignored?
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Yep, like everything, it's a trade off. In return you get a very robust platform and free fonts.
My computer or more accurately the operating system came with dozens of fonts, maybe hundreds. Why can't you use one of those?
Would you condemn web typography to the use of "web safe fonts" forever?