During the first day of the Google I/O 2010 event, a certain piece of news would have made web-designers jump out of their seats with joy. Google announced its new Google Fonts API, a tool for adding non-standard web fonts on any web page.
Typography is a big part of the print industry, but nowadays people tend to think more of it as the problem in modern web design. This is mainly because browsers have been lagging behind other desktop applications when it comes to font support.
The new API from Google will enable developers to embed a series of open-source high-quality fonts on their page through simple lines of code. To do so, Google set up a new service called the Google Font Directory (still in beta) to host those fonts.
Typography is a big part of the print industry, but nowadays people tend to think more of it as the problem in modern web design. This is mainly because browsers have been lagging behind other desktop applications when it comes to font support.
The new API from Google will enable developers to embed a series of open-source high-quality fonts on their page through simple lines of code. To do so, Google set up a new service called the Google Font Directory (still in beta) to host those fonts.