Disaster is probably too strong word, but given current browser and operating system share Google's new fonts are much less useful than they appear to be. Desp

Disaster is probably too strong word, but given current browser and operating system share Google's new fonts are much less useful than they appear to be. Despite what it may look like according to most vocal people on the web, great majority of people still use Windows. New Google fonts look noticeably worse than default fonts on all browsers in Windows XP/Vista/7. Well rendered old fonts are still much nicer than ugly rendered new fonts. Which means if you will use these new Google fonts, user experience for majority of your visitors is going to be worse than before (unless your visitors are heavily skewed toward OSX or Linux).