Google has released 18 free fonts for the web in an attempt to leave the boring old fonts behind and move into the future of downloadable text-styles.
In a Google I/O conference on Wednesday, the company released 18 freely usable fonts and an open-source tool, Google Font API, designed to smooth over browser issues in displaying these downloaded fonts.
"With the Google Font API, using these fonts on your web page is almost as easy as using the standard set of so-called "web-safe" fonts that come installed on most computers," said Ralph Levien and David Kuettel of the Google Font API team in a blog post.
Downloadable fonts have been plagued with licensing issues from the beginning, but with Google’s new move into the foray of font designing copyright issues may become a thing of the past.
The post goes on to state: "Since all the fonts are open source, you can use them any way you like. We also have a separate project hosted on Google Code for downloading the original font files. Since they're open source, they can be used for just about any purpose, including for print."
Source: GoogleCode Blog, CNET
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