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Google announces Font API and Font Directory

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“At this year’s Google I/O developer conference, currently
taking place in San Francisco, Google announced the availability of
a collection of high quality open source fonts for the web. The
company has been working with a number of font designers to create
the a range of new fonts, which are available to everybody on the
web via Google’s new Font Directory and Font API services. Google
says that “the web has lagged print and even other electronic media
in typographic sophistication” and it hopes that, thanks to browser
support for web fonts, the open source fonts will add more visual
diversity and richness to the web.”


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