{"id":583,"date":"2010-06-16T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2010-06-18T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:04:17","slug":"my-reaction-to-google-font-directory-meh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/my-reaction-to-google-font-directory-meh\/","title":{"rendered":"My reaction to Google Font Directory: “Meh.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google<\/a>I’ve been interested in web fonts<\/a> for a while now, so I was rather excited when the Google Font Directory<\/a> was released last month.<\/p>\n

Am I the only one who’s not really impressed with it?<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong — the technology<\/a> rocks; it’s an easy way to get non-standard, licensed web fonts into your site. No, my beef is with the fonts themselves.<\/p>\n

To my non-typographically-expert eye, half of them are indistinguishable from current web-safe fonts (e.g. Nobile<\/a> and Vollkorn<\/a>). Why bother making the user download a font that looks like something that they’ve already got on their system?<\/p>\n

\"Jagged<\/a>Another 40% look like crap, at least on my PC. They have way too many jagged edges to be used on a live web site. (I’ve looked at the page in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari — they’re all about the same.)<\/p>\n

The remaining couple of fonts are pretty good: I’ve already used Lobster<\/a> as a choice for creating customized Match The Memory games<\/a>, and I predict that we’ll see a lot of blogs with headlines set in Yanone Kaffeesatz<\/a> and Reenie Beanie<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n

I realize that the existence of a project like this would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, when type foundries would have completely freaked out at the thought of their cash-cow fonts being accessible from a web site. I understand that these fonts are probably just the beginning, that they’re working on adding more and better typefaces as they bring on board more type designers.<\/p>\n

But I say, “Okay first try, but hurry it up already!” The selection of fonts that’s online through GFD right now just isn’t that impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been interested in web fonts for a while now, so I was rather excited when the Google Font Directory was released last month. Am I the only one who’s not really impressed with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3],"tags":[35,114,65],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-web-stuff","category-programming","tag-fonts","tag-google-font-directory","tag-match-the-memory","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}