Google Font resource

Google fonts are easy to use, but horrible when it comes to browsing or choosing. This helps me.

http://somadesign.ca/demos/better-google-fonts/


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Great find, Ernie! And the painfully-slow load time on this page (plus a sneaking suspicion that Safari may crash soon) makes it an excellent case-study for why you should only use one or two Web fonts on any given page.

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On Jul 13, 2013, at 5:10 PM, The Big Erns wrote:

Google fonts are easy to use, but horrible when it comes to browsing or choosing. This helps me.

Better Google Web Fonts


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Thanks Ernie - Bookmarked

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Thanks Ernie! Great find.


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Sync the Google fonts with your desktop - Download Google Fonts - Fonts.com | Fonts.com

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Thank you, Ernie!

On 13 Jul 2013, 9:21 pm, waltd wrote:

Great find, Ernie! And the painfully-slow load time on this page (plus a sneaking suspicion that Safari may crash soon) makes it an excellent case-study for why you should only use one or two Web fonts on any given page.

Walter

Hmmm. After one minor hickup the page loads good on my iPad2.


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First visit, on a massive Mac Pro (16GB RAM) on a 30 Mbps cable connection. The page loads fairly quickly, but with 100% generic fonts. The fonts then trickle in one at a time, and noticeably re-jig the page layout as they do. It’s not a poster child for breaking a browser, just showing badly on one.

Walter

On Jul 16, 2013, at 8:35 AM, atelier wrote:

Thank you, Ernie!

On 13 Jul 2013, 9:21 pm, waltd wrote:

Great find, Ernie! And the painfully-slow load time on this page (plus a sneaking suspicion that Safari may crash soon) makes it an excellent case-study for why you should only use one or two Web fonts on any given page.

Walter

Hmmm. After one minor hickup the page loads good on my iPad2.


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My situation as said iPad 2, connection 7,1 Mbit/s over WiFi.
Page loaded after one small hesitation at once and completely.
Maybe difference Safari Mac and mobile?


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That’s one nice thing about the Google font page at Google - they have a
little speedometer graphic to show how much a hit your font choices are
costing you.


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On this heavy page different browsers do not react the same at all.

Quck test here: FF 22.0 actually best, followed by Safari Version 5.1.9. Chrome Version 28.0.1500.71 not good at all. and Opera 12.15 made the fans spin on my 13" mid 2010 MBPro.

Interesting.


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Hmm. Safari and Chrome both good performance for me. Fallback to sans-serif
as the fonts load up, then resolve quickly. Maybe Google likes me better :slight_smile:


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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:25 PM, atelier email@hidden wrote:

On this heavy page different browsers do not react the same at all.

Quck test here: FF 22.0 actually best, followed by Safari Version 5.1.9.
Chrome Version 28.0.1500.71 not good at all. and Opera 12.15 made the fans
spin on my 13" mid 2010 MBPro.

Interesting.


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Lucky you;-)


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SUPERB FIND ERNIE! Many thanks, really useful to visually scan over the fonts quickly.


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… really useful to visually scan over the fonts quickly.

I know, isn’t it? That’s what’s been missing for me from Google Fonts.
There are paid services out there for testing font choices, but something
this simple was all that I needed.

:slight_smile:


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