Font experiments, Part 2

By Ananda | Published: May 20, 2010

My initial excitement about the Google Font Directory is a little bit diminished right now.

According to the Google Code Blog:

The Google Font API hides a lot of complexity behind the scenes. Google’s serving infrastructure takes care of converting the font into a format compatible with any modern browser (including Internet Explorer 6 and up), sends just the styles and weights you select, and the font files and CSS are tuned and optimized for web serving.

But here are a few screencaps of my site in different browsers:

I guess this has inspired me to explore using the @font-face option though, so there might be some more font experiments on the way.

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  • http://news.mrdwab.com mrdwab

    Interestingly (and annoyingly), even the example screenshots I've posted above aren't entirely accurate. On two of my home computers, Firefox displays the fonts correctly–actually a little bit smoother than Chrome and Opera; on the other, same problem–even though they are all using the same version of Firefox. I'll explore some more….

  • http://news.mrdwab.com mrdwab

    For now, I've given up on Google Font API, but I've gone ahead and downloaded and created some @font-face font kits at fontsquirrel.com. I still can't quite figure out how to get consistent line spacing across different browsers, but I'm happier with these results than I was with Google Font API. Maybe I was just doing something wrong though….

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