codebase – Andy Sternberg https://andysternberg.com insights from the digital future Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:50:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 3320022 Google Updates Web Fonts Site, Adds Hundreds of Fonts https://andysternberg.com/google-updates-web-fonts-site-adds-hundreds-of-fonts/ https://andysternberg.com/google-updates-web-fonts-site-adds-hundreds-of-fonts/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 22:50:29 +0000 http://andysternberg.com/?p=26757 Continue reading "Google Updates Web Fonts Site, Adds Hundreds of Fonts"

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One of my favorite Google features got a facelift and a major upgrade this week. Google Web Fonts makes it easy to stretch your typographic design far beyond the limitations of the basic, old school, web-friendly fonts of the world wide web.

Today the Web Fonts kit graduates from the Google codebase to the big G at google.com/webfonts/v2 and adds a suitcase for you to collect and easily reference your favorite fonts. And there are now 180 font families to choose from.

As I ecstatically posted last year:

Now we’ve got the quickest shortcut to open-licensed, cross-platform fonts since… well it’s only been a few months since a bunch of designers and typographers got together to develop the Web Open Font Format, a soon-to-be-standardized font specification that wraps core web fonts (including Apple’s TrueType and Microsoft’s OpenType) into an encoded, embeddable file. Google also partnered with TypeKit to offer the Web Font Loader, offering more flexibility.

That’s not all Google updated today — the new homepage top nav bar gives it a slick Android 3.0 look and feel. On top of that — the announcement of Google+, currently in closed beta.

How to use Google Web Fonts in your WordPress blog:

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