[Member] August 15, 2011 Share August 15, 2011 In case you haven't already heard... http://www.google.com/webfonts#HomePlace:home About Google Web Fonts... "Google web fonts is a project to ensure webmaster, designers and developers have free and easy access to a choice of rich, free, quality typography for their websites. Our goal is to create a directory of core web fonts that anyone can use. We believe there shouldn't be any financial barriers for the use of the technology websites are built on. A web built with web fonts is a web that is more beautiful, more readable, more accessible and more open. Free and open source fonts All the Google web fonts are open source. That means that you are free to to use them in any way you want, independent of whether you're working on a private or commercial project. The API serving Google web fonts is built on Google infrastructure that is fast, reliable and tested. We provide the service free of charge. Where do the fonts come from? We are working with many type designers to fill the directory with quality font faces that are optimized for usage on the web. If you want to contribute please get in touch. Popular Google web fonts can been seen on millions of web sites. The Google web fonts team" Has anyone started using Google Web Fonts, yet? Not all their fonts are great, some are okay, most are very amateur, but there are some quite nice. I'd love to hear what you guys think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spru1 August 15, 2011 Share August 15, 2011 Indeed most are poor! However their are a few gems in amongst the collection! Still doesn't compare to premium vendors like TypeKit etc. Spru. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] August 17, 2011 Share August 17, 2011 I believe it has a good selection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LoremIpsu.me August 21, 2011 Share August 21, 2011 Riccardo De Franceschi (rdftype.it) designed Asset, Gravitas One and Goblin One for Sorkin Type, available as Google web fonts [url="http://www.rdftype.it/"]Preview[/url] Also included: Ginnasio (PDFx) [url="http://www.rdftype.it/?/projects/ginnasio/"]Preview[/url] [url="http://www.multiupload.com/0MZCZMPGV2"]Download[/url] Note: Sorkin Type Co. was founded in 2011. It is currently engaged in making fonts for the Google Web Font project. Families and improved versions of these types will be available to license for both print and web use in the future. Designers creating these fonts include: Elena Albertoni, Nicole Fally, Riccardo De Franceschi, James Grieshaber, Karolina Lach, Viktoriya Gadomska-Grabowska, and Eben Sorkin. See Sorkin Type folder with subfolders by designer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 17, 2012 Share January 17, 2012 Rouge Script by Sabrina Mariela Lopez http://www.embedupload.com/?d=0CQ4NIIYFH Note - when I open in Windows 7 it shows as a plain san serif font. Hopefully someone can fix this. I tried in Font Creator but didn't have success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 17, 2012 Share January 17, 2012 Mernjer, click on the link below and you find what you are looking for... A RougeScript.otf that looks like it is suppose too when opened. http://www.ffonts.net/Rouge-Script.font Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neocount January 19, 2012 Share January 19, 2012 Rouge Script by Sabrina Mariela Lopez http://www.embedupload.com/?d=0CQ4NIIYFH Note - when I open in Windows 7 it shows as a plain san serif font. Hopefully someone can fix this. I tried in Font Creator but didn't have success. Maybe the ot version will work for you? direct download here: http://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/rougescript/src/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 26, 2012 Share January 26, 2012 Could somebody please help me with this: How do i stay updated with the google web fonts homepage? The site gets updated once a week. When i use the "date added" order, it often shows less new fonts than were actually added (for instance: last week, the complete font count was 422, this week its 436, means 14 new fonts. the "date added" order only showed 11 fonts above the last one that was added the week before) is there a program or a script to keep me up to date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 26, 2012 Share January 26, 2012 Rouge Script by Sabrina Mariela Lopez http://www.embedupload.com/?d=0CQ4NIIYFH Note - when I open in Windows 7 it shows as a plain san serif font. Hopefully someone can fix this. I tried in Font Creator but didn't have success. I'm using windows 7 too and I got the same plain san serif when I opened the file, but once installed, I got the right font both in Corel Draw and Adobe Illustrator. Try installing the font and open it in other applications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 26, 2012 Share January 26, 2012 Could somebody please help me with this: How do i stay updated with the google web fonts homepage? The site gets updated once a week. When i use the "date added" order, it often shows less new fonts than were actually added (for instance: last week, the complete font count was 422, this week its 436, means 14 new fonts. the "date added" order only showed 11 fonts above the last one that was added the week before) is there a program or a script to keep me up to date? I am doing like you, and am keeping track of the new fonts vs. the older fonts. I think the difference in the 3 fonts, is that they consider each style a new font. The font called Asap has 4 styles. So those extra 3 styles makes it 14 new fonts. I couldn't find any other way to see what is newest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 26, 2012 Share January 26, 2012 The best way to keep up to date is to use Mercurial, and to clone a copy of the entire project on your hard disk. This way you can update with 1 click (and you also get the source files). http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 26, 2012 Share January 26, 2012 CaballoMrk, thank you for this tip, but its not working for me. I followed the description to install Mercurial and copy-pasted "hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory;" into the terminal. After that the terminal showed a lot of (at least for me) cryptic error messages, no download started (or at least i didnt see one). :( BTW, congratulations for your new font Kaushan Script, looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] January 27, 2012 Share January 27, 2012 @mmmikey Search Google for "Mercurial GUI mac" or "Mercurial GUI pc", so you don't have to use the terminal. In the Mac I'm using MacHG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] May 4, 2012 Share May 4, 2012 Does anyone know if Google Webfonts is still loading new fonts. I haven't seen anything new since early April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] May 4, 2012 Share May 4, 2012 AFAIK they are reworking some of the internals of the publishing system. By the way, they are now fully integrated into Google Docs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] May 4, 2012 Share May 4, 2012 AFAIK they are reworking some of the internals of the publishing system. By the way, they are now fully integrated into Google Docs. Thanks, I had a feeling you would know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] May 6, 2012 Share May 6, 2012 How do commercial font makers consider Google's efforts to eviscerate them? I'm surprised that the price of professional fonts has gone to zero and I don't hear any out cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] May 6, 2012 Share May 6, 2012 In fact, GWF has grown the market for commercial web-font distributors. They are selling more than ever. In many cases re-selling the same fonts again, this time under a web-font license. (miss)Quoting David Berlow "The web is the Viagra of font sales" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] February 22, 2013 Author Share February 22, 2013 Did not know that! I'll have to test it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] February 22, 2013 Author Share February 22, 2013 In fact, GWF has grown the market for commercial web-font distributors. They are selling more than ever. In many cases re-selling the same fonts again, this time under a web-font license. (miss)Quoting David Berlow "The web is the Viagra of font sales" Agree... In my original post I mentioned how some fonts were poor and amateur... GWF has come a long way. Their fonts are much more usable (not from a technical standpoint) from an aesthetically pleasing POV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] February 22, 2013 Share February 22, 2013 Mercurial GUI pc http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/download/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] February 23, 2013 Share February 23, 2013 Some recent Google web fonts: Sorkin Type: Merriweather Sans family + updates for Kavoon and Tauri Google Corp: Noto Sans family (designed by Monotype) Patrick Wagesreiter: Patrick Hand SC http://ge.tt/16MuDDZ/v/0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] June 5, 2013 Share June 5, 2013 Google Webfonts Complete (65MB) (Updated May 7, 2012) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/77843795/googlewebfonts.zip Clone Google's hg repository (2GB) https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory/zipball/master Source http://goo.gl/EZJjj -bt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Member] October 10, 2016 Share October 10, 2016 Noto Project | Google and Monotype launch Noto, an open-source typeface family for all the world’s languages. Read about it. http://www.itsnicethat.com/news/google-monotype-noto-type-family-061016 Download all or specific languages. https://www.google.com/get/noto/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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