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If I understand correctly, Google Fonts may be used in commercial websites. Does the license vary between different fonts in this case?
Overall it looks quite a bit heavier. I can see that working sometimes but not always.
On a current Windows 7 machine, Brick is much better than Google web font using Chrome, but both FF and IE v11 would be a show-stoppers for me, with random baseline shifts in the preview header making it look a little like a ransom note font.
Is there any browser compatibility lost by offering up only the WOFF format?
Ligatures (nice), better weighting and nicer tracking all around.
Very nice.
As far as I can see; iOS renders it just fine in both implementations
Because of that fonts often look far better and "truer" to their original intentions, Macs/iOS have always favoured fidelity over legibility (when pushed) so it is perhaps not surprising they both look good.
I want to give a big thank-you to the fine folks at Fastly ( http://www.fastly.com ) who generously agreed to host Brick on their great CDN network. They're big fans of open source!
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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?
See: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Sub...
So if you add a `&subset=all` to the example page requesting from Google Fonts, they'll end up looking pretty much the same (though I think some things are missing in the example, like the swashes on the Qs).
I discovered this in reading the Lobster font's documentation.
What the heck is with the bottoms of the lowercase a, w, and t? Is it really supposed to dip below the line like that? And is the fi really supposed to join up in this font, or are they just overlapping and it's a happy accident that it looks like a ligature? Overall it looks quite a bit heavier. I can see that working sometimes but not always.
I'm pretty sure the fi is supposed to be joined; if you highlight it with your mouse, it highlights as one character (though on copy-and-paste it's two, as expected).
OpenType fonts usually look a bit heavier, but I don't think it's a big issue.
Alfred, love the project and effort. Everything looks great on my Mac. On a current Windows 7 machine, Brick is much better than Google web font using Chrome, but both FF and IE v11 would be a show-stoppers for me, with random baseline shifts in the preview header making it look a little like a ransom note font. Is there any browser compatibility lost by offering up only the WOFF format?
Yes, IE http://caniuse.com/woff