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 […]
Tag Archives: webfonts
FontFriend 3.2 Released: Now With More Google
June 6, 2011 – 10:28 pm
When I released FontFriend 3.1, I mentioned that Google Web Fonts didn’t have a proper API, making things difficult. They still don’t have a public API, but on Thursday I was given “trusted tester” access to the new API. It won’t look that much different, but there’ll be a few fonts working now that weren’t […]
FontFriend 3.1 Loves Google Webfonts
May 13, 2011 – 12:07 pm
I’ve had a number of requests to better integrate Google Webfonts into FontFriend. They keep adding all these great fonts that anyone can use for free, and should be part of a tool like FontFriend. The trouble was that they didn’t have an API, making it difficult. More on that later, because I got it […]
FontFriend 3.0 Released
April 10, 2011 – 6:46 pm
I’m pleased to announce the immediate release of FontFriend 3.0, the Typekit integration edition. Invoking the bookmarklet on any Typekit-enabled page will automagically throw all the fonts in your kit into the custom families list. I’ve set up a demo page with FontFriend embedded and a big Typekit kit. My main imagined use-case for this feature […]
The Definitive @font-face Syntax
February 3, 2011 – 3:51 pm
UPDATE: The syntax has already been improved to favour IE9 loading WOFF instead of EOT, thanks to some sleuthing by the CSS Ninja. UPDATE 2: The syntax now uses a ? instead of a # because local IE requests choked on the #. Ethan Dunham of Font Squirrel and Fontspring fame has just released the definitive @font-face syntax. […]