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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.
Interesting. It is a rare thing to see that Google shares information about the Browser and OS stats.
And that they broke out iOS (even iPhone/iPad separately), but not Android (I suspect it's in the oddly high Linux category).
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?
Where do you see the IE version split? I only see the browser type analytics, not split by version.
Though assuming the two pie charts are based on the same data, I'm not sure how specific versions of Chrome and Mobile Safari have greater shares of the "Browser Versions" pie than all of their versions have in the combined "Browsers" chart.
If you ever get lost in the tons of fonts offered, check out this curated list that I absolutely adore: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ https://github.com/ubuwaits/beautiful-web-type
There are more like these. If I can find find them in my bookmarks, I'll paste them here.
If you ever get lost in the tons of fonts offered, check out this curated list that I absolutely adore: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ https://github.com/ubuwaits/beautiful-web-type
Windows Chrome, the #1 Google Fonts browser, pretty much sucks at rendering Google Fonts. Which means you probably don't want to use Google Fonts yet.
An outstanding issue [1] for the past few years has been that it can't antialias fonts correctly. The results are sometimes just so-so, and sometimes horrible, depending on what version of Windows you're running and what settings you have enabled. Small fixes have dropped but the fundamental issue remains.
When I first added Google Fonts to my site, I got word from several readers saying text was illegible. Thats when I discovered that tons of other designers had the same issue and it was Chrome's fault (search 'chrome windows fonts' and enjoy). I went back to Helvetica/Arial and every day this issue persists a little part of the designer in me dies.
When a company espouses a newfound interest in design [2] [3], but lets a major design issue on the largest platform for their products just sit there (visibly) unaddressed, you get a sense they don't have the right people in the right places to get stuff done yet.
Don't get me wrong, I love Google Fonts, it's a fantastic service for the design community. And Google has been building a lot of great design tools [4] that help push the web forward. Just.. close the loop on fonts already.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692 [2] http://www.fastcodesign.com/3016268/google-the-redesign [3] http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/24/3904134/google-redesign-ho... [4] https://www.google.com/webdesigner/
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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.
Serif fonts are going out of business? Only one in the top 10 is Droid Serif, still dropping.
I wouldn't say going out of business, I don't think they will ever disappear, but definitely taking a back-seat role.
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And that they broke out iOS (even iPhone/iPad separately), but not Android (I suspect it's in the oddly high Linux category).
They didn't break out android because it would contradict the usage numbers they would like people to believe.
It would actually be impressive if google was such a single cohesive whole