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Google Web Fonts Families
- andrewfelix 15y agoAnyone know why it renders poorly on Windows Chrome? Looks beautiful in IE9.
- jsdalton 15y agoA bit of context (I didn't get what this was at first): "Google Web Fonts is an awesome source of free, open source fonts hooked up to a world-class CDN. It’s also, sadly, filled with one-off novelty fonts vying for the title of “the new Comic Sans.” "I quickly discovered that a good metric for higher-quality fonts was the presence of at least one alternate. The Google Web Fonts directory does not allow that type of filtering, so I built this simple one-off page that allows you to browse multi-variant typefaces." From here: http://somadesign.ca/2011/better-google-fonts/ http://somadesign.ca/2011/better-google-fonts/
- 4ad 15y agoI still don't get the point of this. I see the utility of seeing multiple fonts at once, but I'm sure there is a more subtle point. Because web designers want font families, not just fonts, what does this even mean?
- csytan 15y agoHe's saying that fonts that have multiple weights/styles are also fonts that are more likely to be higher quality. Personally, I would use this tool to find a font that could be used throughout the page for different elements: such as body text, heading text, quotations, etc. The alternative would be to mix and match different fonts, but this takes a lot more effort and experimentation.
- 178 15y agoThis. I am trying to only use FOSS fonts, also for print, so having families matters even more to me. I actually went through the while directory and sorted it by hand just last month, so this service will prove invaluable next time i need to choose fonts for any project, especially cross-media.
- 4ad 15y agoThanks for the explanation.
- spindritf 15y agoUbuntu Mono seems to still be missing, unfortunately.
- algorithms 15y agoHm... for me it's there direct link: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Ubuntu%20Mono http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Ubuntu%20Mono
- spindritf 15y agoI thought about http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/ http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/ but it's there too, just in a separate family. Thanks.
- reneherse 15y agoA very useful round of editing of Google's webfont directory with a simple and uncluttered, "everything at a glance" interface. Awesome!