Google font API with font directory – learn a little about it

Posted on August 4th in Fancy Web 2.0

Google introduced font api and font directory to give web 2 better shape. Means you dont have to use too common web fonts to design a monotonous web page.

Using google font api, you can use any font from google font directory to decorate your webpage.

What is Google Font API?

Google font api helps you to add any font from their font directory to your website with for free. Adding a font is very easy : just add a special stylesheet link to your web page, then use the font in a CSS style.

What is Google Font Directory?

To give developers a choice of high-quality fonts when using the Font API, google have created the Google Font Directory. There you can browse our catalog of available fonts, learn about the font designers who created them, and copy the code required to use them on your web page.

The fonts in the directory are all released under open source licenses; you can use them on any non-commercial or commercial project.

See a quick example here

http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/getting_started.html#Quick_Start