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Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by crazygringo »

I dunno. On OSX in Chrome, at least, they look absoutely identical except for the 'fi' ligature, and the "E" in "Etiam" is kerned one pixel tighter, and there are maybe 3-4 other spots where there is 1px difference of kerning.

I've got a sharp eye, but at 300k for Brick, vs 92k for Google Fonts, I've got to go with Google Fonts here, especially when I'll usually have a given Google Font cached anyways, so it's often 0. But I'm glad to be given the option, regardless, and the opportunity to compare.

And as for character sets, Google Fonts lets you pick the character sets you want, too. Does Brick provide any characters which Google doesn't allow you to add?

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by dmxt »

martinml wrote: post #17
codelap wrote: post #11

Heh, they both look fine to me. I really couldn't see the difference... I'm a sucker for good design, but it seems my font style is in the incompetent zone.

I guess it depends on your setup. On Windows XP + ClearType + Chrome the difference is _huge_, it has a much better font smoothing.

I'm just interested, why are you still on Windows XP?

Re: Brick. Webfonts that look good

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Post by alfredxing »

crazygringo wrote: post #21

I dunno. On OSX in Chrome, at least, they look absoutely identical except for the 'fi' ligature, and the "E" in "Etiam" is kerned one pixel tighter, and there are maybe 3-4 other spots where there is 1px difference of kerning. I've got a sharp eye, but at 300k for Brick, vs 92k for Google Fonts, I've got to go with Google Fonts here, especially when I'll usually have a given Google Font cached anyways, so it's often…

OSX seems to do a good job at rendering fonts.

EB Garamond, at 300KB, is the largest font in the catalogue right now, since its character set is huge (the other fonts are around 80-100KB).

And while Google does let you choose character sets, not all special glyphs are included (for example, ornaments).

But I agree with you: choice is everything, and it's always better to have an alternative.

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