Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google web fonts directory

Re:Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google w... by buro9 on Saturday January 28, 2012 @04:33PM (#3523343)

1 web page

22 HTTP requests

442.61KB transferred

Thankfully we're not facing an increasing use of mobile devices on high latency networks. Oh.

Platform and browser defaults have come so far that nowadays my preferred font stack is this:

  font-family: sans-serif;

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Re:Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google w... by ceejayoz on Saturday January 28, 2012 @05:05PM (#3523436)

Most sites aren't going to be demoing a bunch of different fonts like this. They'd likely pick one for headers and one for copy.

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Re:Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google w... by iamhenry on Saturday January 28, 2012 @08:47PM (#3524113)

I agree. On that same note, I would stay away from using a web font in your body. It'll render slow on smart phones if you have a fairly lenthy article. Not only that, it may not render as crisp, therefore causing a bad reading experience.

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Re:Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google w... by voyou on Sunday January 29, 2012 @04:14AM (#3524850)

"I would stay away from using a web font in your body. It'll render slow on smart phones"

Why is that? I thought the system fonts would be TrueType or OpenType, and so use the same renderer as web fonts. Not that I know much about the technical details of fonts; is it possible to optimize a font for ease of rendering?

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Re:Beautiful web type: highlighting the best of the Google w... by hazexp on Saturday January 28, 2012 @11:19PM (#3524422)

Also, they can be combined into one HTTP request.

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