Google just launched a font directory and a font API that will make it easier for web developers and publishers to use high-quality open source fonts on their sites. Good typography on the web is still in its infancy, but Google wants to make it easier for developers to use a wider variety of fonts on the Web that go beyond the standard set of "web-safe" fonts that come pre-installed on most modern computers. The Google Font API uses Google's infrastructure to automatically convert a font into the right format for whatever browser the user is using. According to Google, these fonts also work well with CSS3 and HTML5 styling.
WebFont Loader
Google's font directory currently features 18 fonts (some with multiple variants), including the popular Droid fonts. For now, Google is only supporting Western European languages, but the company expects to offer support for a more diverse set of languages soon.
(via RWW)
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I am a font geek (among other types of geek), so this is especially dear to my heart. Notgonnalie, sometimes I practice fonts. As in writing them. For fun. And of course I am of the phiosoply that Comic Sans should be the sarcasm typeface because it should NEVER be taken seriously.
Also, as I learned earlier this week from Broken Secrets, Frederic Lardinois has confused font for typeface. A typeface is a family of fonts, including various sizes and effects. So, for example, Arial size 12 italic is a FONT. Arial is a TYPEFACE. The whole areicle is pretty short and a great read if you're a font geek like me.
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