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Typography on the web is a major source of difficulty for designers today. There are so few "web-safe" fonts, and there's no standard way to bring new ones into the equation. Well, Google has taken a big step toward addressing that problem, by introducing an open source font library, and an API that makes it easy to use the new fonts on your own webpage. That means that along with Georgia, Arial and the rest, you're about to start seeing a lot more Droid Serif, Molengo, and Tangerine on the web. Along with the Google Font Directory and Google Font API, there's also a partnership with Typekit to create something called the WebFont Loader. The WebFont Loader is a JavaScript library that works with Google's API, but gives you more control over font loading, and even allows you to pull in fonts from other web-font sources.
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Subscribe to commentsnomi49May 20th 2010 12:47AM
C'mon. We don't have any non-Google news?
digitalseditionMay 20th 2010 1:08AM
Let's see - Google IO is this week, so I'd imagine that there would be a LOT of Google news to communicate...
Jeremy BarrMay 20th 2010 2:14AM
This is an excellent idea. It's interesting its taken so long for something like this to be considered.
blasztaMay 20th 2010 3:30AM
I'm actually quite fed up with Google news.. but this one is a god send :D