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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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