Google Web Fonts Families

http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/

by tilt • 15 years ago

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spindritf2• 15 years ago

Ubuntu Mono seems to still be missing, unfortunately.

algorithms• 15 years ago

Hm... for me it's there

direct link: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Ubuntu%20Mono

spindritf2• 15 years ago

I thought about http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/ but it's there too, just in a separate family. Thanks.

jsdalton• 15 years ago

A 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/

4ad2• 15 years ago

I 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• 15 years ago

He'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.

reneherse• 15 years ago

A very useful round of editing of Google's webfont directory with a simple and uncluttered, "everything at a glance" interface. Awesome!

andrewfelix• 15 years ago

Anyone know why it renders poorly on Windows Chrome? Looks beautiful in IE9.

Google Web Fonts Families

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