HURRAH! Google have got together with typekit and created an online API for embedding fonts into web pages. Fonts have long been a problem because of embedded copyright. However, Google have now provided some lovely fonts where you don't need to worry about the copyright and you can just use them on your site. And they're fast. And cross-browser. Hurrah!
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I'm very excited about this (being a bit of a typography geek.) I've been using Typekit on my site for months now, and it's great, but the web really needed an open, copyright-free version to push people towards using, and caring about, good typography.
Right now, the Google font-library is a little limited for my liking, but that's fine; I'm certain it'll expand to cover all the standard requirements (while, presumably, leaving more specialised typefaces for Typekit) and, being backed by Google, will rapidly be optimised-for by the major browsers.
:D :D
Absolutely, another win by Google. They don't profit out of it directly, which is simply lovely.
I imagine that typonauts might start submitting fonts to Google so that they can be listed. Partly for exposure partly for the Google of being part of the Google-Typekit project. :)