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The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Font API.

Benefits of the Google Font API include:

  • A choice of high quality open source fonts.
  • Works in most browsers.
  • Extremely easy to use.

Available at https://developers.google.com/fonts/

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Load times with @font-face vs. Google fonts or localhost files vs. CDN's

Is loading fonts via storing them on your server and using @font-face slower than loading them from Google's font API? Or does it always depend on the font and vary from situation to situation? And the same for Javascript and other similar files: is…
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Google webfonts - is there a way to @import instead of embed?

Working on a website for a client - long story, but I'm not allowed to edit markup, just include an override stylesheet and make tweaks through there. I need to import a google font, but because of the requirement I can't use the normal embed…
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Google fonts not working on some macs

I am using an embedded google font in my HTML for the header of my website. It works fine in all browsers on most computers, but does not work on some macs. I read a solution for this that suggested adding the declaration !important to the line in…
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Why is Google font not working?

I am using Google font from http://www.google.com/webfonts/earlyaccess but it's not working as it suppose to. Any ideas. I set up a basic version at http://jsfiddle.net/UbDcg/4/ which is not working like it suppose to . HTML FONT RESOURCE:
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conditional statements and ie blank page?

Thought these were working fine, but upon just checking I get a blank page in ie9. If I use developer tools to switch to ie 8 or 7 the same result. Maybe I am just too tired to right now, but I'm not seeing anything wrong with the below to cause a…
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How to use google web fonts in IE, Firefox and Chrome

I am trying to use google fonts in my web application. My call to load google fonts is : $.get("https://www.googleapis.com/webfonts/v1/webfonts?key=xxxxxxx", function (result) { var data = {}; …
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google font only ie9 and the rest?

I am using Google Fonts to load two fonts. Since they look absolutely horrible in anything below ie9 I want to disregard them. Here is what I am thinking :