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[Webmonkey] Typekit offers Google’s new open source fonts, Veen says, but Typekit also offers access to a library of over 4,000 commercial fonts of professional quality. Typekit is currently the only source offering these high-quality typefaces for legal use on the web.

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[The Typekit Blog] Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration « The ...: Good to see typekit and Google playing nice on launch day for their directory/api. It’s fun watching webfonts gain steam over the past several months.

[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.

[Tech Reviews] Tech Reviews » Google offers Web designers hosted, open-source Web ...: Together, these tools should give Web designers some easy-to-use choices to enhance and differentiate their sites. Along with current and coming support for @font-face and WOFF among browsers, as well as services like TypeKit, designers will have the control they have longed for while retaining the usability of standard text.

[IdealStyleAndDesign.com] Google Font API & Interview | IdealStyleAndDesign.com: But then, strangely, I was able to block it again, and the fonts still showed up on page reload (perhaps because they’re now cached on my browser). My guess is that google-analytics.com is required if you want to view these fonts served via Google.

[Supergazol's posterous] Google offers Web designers hosted, open-source Web fonts ...: Google hosts all the fonts on its servers, and offers a simple Web-based API that handles all the browser differences behind the scenes. Furthermore, Web font service provider TypeKit has partnered with Google to offer an additional .

[CSS-Tricks] Google Font API & Interview | CSS-Tricks: I have been looking into fonts on the web quite a lot recently and previously used Cufon which basically integrates the font into your site using javascript but has the issue of copyright and therefore can’t use a lot of the standard fonts on your mac/pc. Also this method does not allow you to select the text for copy and pasting etc.

[The Typekit Blog] Typekit Font Events « The Typekit Blog: Web fonts may be the best thing to happen to web design in years, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some tricky issues to overcome. One of the most annoying things is dealing with what’s become known as the FOUT or ‘Flash of Unstyled Text’.

[Typophile - General Discussions, Design, Build, Release, News, Bitmap Display / Script, Bitmap Text, Blackletter / Uncial, Display, Motion / 3d / Experimental, Sans Serif, Script / Handwriting / Graffiti, Serif, Typography / Composition, Type ID Board, wiki] Help Understanding Google Web Fonts | Typophile: Specifically, I see that the Google Font API has a "custom" module that allows you to reference fonts on other servers. My understanding is that you still have to be referencing fonts that have a web embedding license in order to use the custom module, and that you can't just use any standard font that you've purchased.

[Wisdump] Google enters the @font-face business | Wisdump: Google is throwing its own hat into the web fonts ring with the Google Font Directory and the Google Font API. While it appears it doesn't have any partnerships with the big names in typography like TypeKit does, just a handful of open .

[Topsy - http://twitter.com/janq] Twitter Trackbacks for Typekit and Google Announce Open Source ...: Here at Typekit, we believe good typography is good for the web. We're working towards a world where all websites have both rich visual communication and content that is searchable, accessible, translatable and delivered as quickly as possible. ... daniel_howellsHighly Influential: “Oh I see so Jeffrey Veen was behind the Google fonts thing: that makes a lot of sense given he's in the inner circle... http://bit.ly/d5Ynrj ” 5 hours ago view tweet retweet. Filter tweets ...

[Lorem Ipsum] Lorem Ipsum: Web fonts!: I've changed the entry titles in my blog to use a fancy open source font called “Tangerine”; I may end up changing them to something else at some point, but if you're reading this entry elsewhere and want to see how it looks, stop by my blog.

[TweetMeme] Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration « The ...: Here at Typekit, we believe good typography is good for the web. We’re working towards a world where all websites have both rich visual communication and content that is searchable, accessible, translatable and delivered as quickly as possible.

[The Technology News] Google's new tool free fonts for web | The Technology News: The way to Web fonts was paved with the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) formatting standard and more recently the Web Open Font Format technology that helped encourage Web typography support from traditional font licensing companies.

[The Typekit Blog] Typekit now supports fonts on the iPhone « The Typekit Blog: Web fonts may be the best thing to happen to web design in years, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some tricky issues to overcome. One of the most annoying things is dealing with what’s become known as the FOUT or ‘Flash of Unstyled Text’.

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