Google’s open source web fonts
Posted by Antony Theobald on Tuesday 25 May 2010 at 11:01am
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Last week we published our Introduction to Fonts and Typefaces which included a look at recent developments in the use of web fonts.
Web fonts let you use a far greater selection of typefaces on web pages. Although it has always been possible to put any typeface on the web by included it in an image, web fonts make your text selectable, scalable, editable, searchable and accessible.
Following the publication of our introductory guide, Google announced its new Google Font Directory and Google Font API. This allows anyone to use their collection of open source fonts freely on the web by adding a couple of lines of HTML to their web page.
Here is an example of text written using the Lobster font
The above line should appear in the Lobster font available from Google Font Directory. We have set Arial as the fallback font for browsers that may not support web fonts.
For more on web fonts have a look at our Introduction to Fonts and Typefaces.
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