{"id":2804,"date":"2010-05-20T05:45:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2010-05-20T09:56:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:56:37","slug":"get-free-custom-fonts-for-youre-webpage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/20\/get-free-custom-fonts-for-youre-webpage\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Font Directory &#8211; Free Custom Fonts for You&#8217;re Webpage\/Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/webfonts\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2805\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Screen shot 2010-05-20 at 5.29.11 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-20-at-5.29.11-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-20-at-5.29.11-AM.png 758w, https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Screen-shot-2010-05-20-at-5.29.11-AM-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many interesting things were announced today at <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/events\/io\/2010\/\">Google&#8217;s annual I\/O<\/a> keynote and meeting. <a href=\"http:\/\/wave.google.com\">Google &#8220;Wave&#8221;<\/a> is now open to the public with no invite necessary. That should attract more users and get some &#8220;network&#8221; effect going, making it a more useful service. Another little one, kind of under the radar, is the availability of <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/webfonts\">some custom fonts<\/a>, free and open source, that you can easily grab the code for with a few snippets and apply to your webpage\/blog. This is useful for design purposes and to have a little fun being creative with your page. I grabbed <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/webfonts\/family?family=IM+Fell+DW+Pica+SC\">one<\/a> already and applied it my header &#8220;Stephen Pickering&#8221; up there. What&#8217;s nice is, besides the fact that they are royalty free and open sourced, that since Google is hosting them on their own servers, the fonts will render properly on any &#8220;Modern&#8221; browser. I just checked on Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, and my header rendered correctly. Not sure about IE, since I don&#8217;t have it. Before, if you applied custom fonts to your page, more than likely other browsers wouldn&#8217;t render it, as they only support a few of the main fonts that are commonly used. But the Google servers make sure the code is there for most of the browsers to render it. Didn&#8217;t work on my iPad, however. I still don&#8217;t understand or like the fact that the iPad uses a &#8220;mobile&#8221; browser. Very lame on Apple&#8217;s part. Flash notwithstanding, the screen real estate is large enough on a tablet, that one should expect a more robust browsing experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/webfonts\">http:\/\/code.google.com\/webfonts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many interesting things were announced today at Google&#8217;s annual I\/O keynote and meeting. Google &#8220;Wave&#8221; is now open to the public with no invite necessary. That should attract more users and get some &#8220;network&#8221; effect going, making it a more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/20\/get-free-custom-fonts-for-youre-webpage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298],"tags":[303,300,302,301,299,274],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-sites-apps","tag-cool-sites","tag-design","tag-directory","tag-font","tag-fonts","tag-google"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}