Google I/O 2011: Web Fonts are changing the Web. Learn why

David Wurtz, David Kuettel, Raph Levien, Darren Glenister

Web fonts have reached a tipping point. In the next few years, the majority of new websites will be built with web fonts. Learn about the benefits of using web fonts in your applications and webpages, some exciting new web font tools that integrate into your existing workflows as well as the technology behind Google Fonts.

[alecsmythe]

I've been using Google fonts for a few months now. They seem to work great on my sites. I've just bought the TypeDNA plug in as well so I can use them within CSS. Hoping they will also work well for print.

[codeman]

@marekventur It's "STIX". Can't provide a link in a comment, but Googling for "STIX fonts" will find it as the first hit.

[MessageTrust]

All looks good to me! Not sure about the design of the new web fonts website though. Functionality looks great but it looks a bit dated in my opinion!

[KatieCunningham]

Utterly awesome. I want to have Google Font's babies.

[alecsmythe]

so I bought TypeDNA, but right now it doesn't have the little Google Fonts icon that he shows in the demo. I assume (hope) it will be upgraded soon. (or I'll figure out how to turn that feature on.)

[ManiJester]

it would be great if instead of providing a hard-coded text in the "text=" parameter, we could specify a regular expression.. for example, i want to use characters from a-z and only digits 0-9.. so i shld be able to specify text=[a-z][0-9]

[MarekVentur]

Where can I find this "sticks" symbol font the questioner is asking about during the q&a session? It might be that this auto-captionizing didn't got the spelling right.

[MrFoggyMind]

Google + Webfonts = Awesome sauce! Tnx google! :)

[Obiah]

Will there be an ability to use these locally on ssl sites?

[cghem]

lets integrate these in google docs soon

[peppeddu]

Didn't address the issue of having the users to initially download the Asian fonts to their device.

An Asian website can easily contain 1000 different characters, even if you have to do it one time, it can be a pain to download it on mobile.

Then when you clear the cache (or it gets cleared automatically) you have to start all over again. Not a good idea.
Same thing when you browse over SSL, where often the cache doesn't get saved.

[covidiu]

Too bad support for diacritics (at least the Romanian ones) is atrocious in the fonts Google offers.

[moorberry]

webfont API is no good if it doesn't work in Chrome (Mac).