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[Google Code Blog] The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.

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[Design Reviver] Cool Resource: The Google Font API and Font Directory | Design Reviver: The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

[D' Technology Weblog] Google Font API & Google Font Directory: Collection of open source ...: Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers,”

[CSS-Tricks] Google Font API & Interview | CSS-Tricks: One of the great things about this service, just like the AJAX libraries (such as our WebFont Loader), is that many different sites can link the fonts, and they’ll all share the browser cache – it’ll only trigger a network download for the first one.

[Web Hosting and Design Blog] Interactive Online - Cool Resource: The Google Font API and Font ...: The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

[Nettuts+] Quick Tip: Google Fonts API: You're Going to Love This | Nettuts+: Google, you’re almost making it too easy for the rest of us. No more complicated third-party Javascripts/funny font file formats.

[ShoutMeloud] Google introduced opersource font API and font directory: The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.

[HighEdWebTech] Google enters web type game with Google Font API | HighEdWebTech: For the most part, we’ve been stuck with the default serif and sans-serif fonts that come with operating systems such as Arial, Georgia, Verdana and so on. These fonts have worked okay, but compared to print, it was difficult to easily create compelling typography on the web.

[TweetMeme] Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font ...: Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory, and the Google Font API to make them available to everybody on the web. For a long time, the web has lagged print and even other electronic media in typographic sophistication.

[WordPress MU and BuddyPress plugins, themes, support, tips and how to's] How to Use the Google Font Directory With WordPress and BuddyPress ...: Keep an eye on Google’s font library for new additions now that it’s open to designers for submission. Also, watch the WordPress repository for plugins that will make this process even simpler for users who don’t want to edit any template files.

[Paul Irish] Details on the new Google Webfont API « Paul Irish: The full webfont.js will be returned to browsers that don't support @font-face, but a UA parser will determine there isnt support and your classes will immediately go to .wf-inactive to indicate it's dead.

[Frog's Digital Design Blog] Google release a Font API & Directory for web developers | Frog's ...: 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. For example, cache headers are set to maximize the likelihood that the fonts will be served from the browser’s cache with no need for a network roundtrip, even when the same font is linked from different websites.

[Digital Marketing Blog by Soak Digital] Google Font Directory: An alternative to Typekit « Digital ...: I’m sticking with Cufon for now, but it’s massively encouraging to see Google putting their considerable weight behind this technology.

[Web Hosting and Design Blog] Interactive Online - Google Font API & The Google Font Directory: The API is very easy to use: just insert a Google-hosted stylesheet and you are ready to go to use the fonts that work the same in almost every browser.

[Focus2 Blog] Make the Web Beautiful: Google Font API and Font Directory ...: This is fantastic, get your fonts on! I'm so excited to worry less and design more, and even people in Internet Explorer can see my fonts choices correctly.

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