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Google Web Fonts project's goals are to create a directory of core web fonts for the world and to provide an API service so that anyone can bring quality typography to their webpages.

Google Web Fonts project's goals are to create a directory of core web fonts for the world and to provide an API service so that anyone can bring quality typography to their webpages.

The API service runs on Google's servers. They are fast, reliable and tested. Google provide the service free of charge. It is possible to add Google Web Fonts to a website in seconds. A web built with web fonts is a web that is more beautiful, more readable, more accessible and more open.

All of the fonts are Open Source. This means that you are free to share your favorites with friends and colleagues. You can even improve or customize them and collaborate with the original designer. And you can use them in every way you want, privately or commercially – in print, on your computer, or in your websites.

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Wrong vertical align of text in Google Chrome browser

I have problem with creating "button" element (text in inline-block container with border), because in some font-size text has wrong vertical-align (is not perfect middle). I want to use Raleway (Google Web Font) and Bootstrap. Height of the text…
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Is there a way to use Google Web Fonts in an HTML email?

An HTML email must (should) have its CSS inlined in order to have the expected design in most of the email clients. Is there a way to link a Google Web Font to or embed in such an email but still maintain a broad acceptance (appropriate rendering)…
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Should I locally store CSS generated by the Google Web Fonts API?

I am using some Google Web Fonts. I hear that Google deal with all the issues between different browsers and serve different media depending on the browser in the request header. My question is, at what point does it do this? Reason being is that…
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Is 'Google Web Fonts' or CDN bad?

I worked on a Project recently; and upon starting one of the first things mentioned was to NOT use google CDN nor google web fonts -- there wasn't an explanation. I have always used CDNs and Google Web Fonts as opposed to font-face; is there any…
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Single versus double quotation marks in HTML & CSS

Could anyone clarify the difference between single and double quotation marks in HTML5 & CSS. Here's Google's contradictory use of single quotes in HTML:
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The reference to entity "subset" must end with the ';' delimiter

I am trying to include webfonts in the template of a Blogger blog:
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Change css font-family for separate options in select tag

I don't know if this is possible, and if not, if someone can throw out optional ideas, but I'm attempting to display a drop down of different fonts (specifically, font's from Google's font directory) in a select tag. In the drop down, I'm trying to…
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Can't set font-weight on Google Fonts

This question has been asked quite a number of times, but none of them works for me. For example: Google fonts font-weight of 100 is not working. (I don't have the font I want to use already in my system.) Why is google font weight not working?.…
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Google webfonts that support UTF-8 (Turkish) characters?

Does anybody know, which fonts support Turkish characters without a problem? Sans or Serif doesn't matter. Example: İ Ü Ç Ğ Ö...
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Google hosted jQuery and webfonts causing webkit warnings

I've got the following code in my headers to load a font from Google's hosted APIs, and to load jQuery and jQueryUI.
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Use Google Web Fonts in commercial native Cocoa apps?

Can Google Web Fonts be legally used in commercial native Cocoa apps on OS X? Google says officially that one can use the fonts for free on commercial websites, but didn't state specifically the case with native apps. Currently I've downloaded the…
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Google Web Fonts don't load in Chrome for iOS

When I use Google Webfonts, they load fine on every browser I care about, EXCEPT Chrome/iOS. This seems odd, as it works fine on Chrome for Mac and Safari for iOS, so I don't think it's an iOS problem or a Google Chrome problem. It seems to be…
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Why are my Google Web Fonts pixelated?

I am trying to use google fonts in a simple website. The tag that I am using is The css is body { padding: 0; text-align: center; line-height:…
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Google Web Fonts don't work in IE8

I'm using this to link to some Google Fonts:
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Revert to unstyled text when web fonts are slow to load?

I'm using Google web fonts, like this: @font-face { font-family: "Vollkorn"; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; src: local('Vollkorn Regular'), local('Vollkorn-Regular'),…
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