Here’s the skinny on what Google’s bringing to the table:

The Google Font API provides a simple, cross-browser method for using any font in the Google Font Directory on your web page. The fonts have all the advantages of normal text: in addition to being richer visually, text styled in web fonts is still searchable, scales crisply when zoomed, and is accessible to users using screen readers.

And here’s an example of what something would look like in the new Google font “Tangerine.”

The quick brown tangerine jumped over the lazy tangerine.

Pretty neat, huh? Here’s a few other examples of the more distinctive/interesting fonts available. Note that I picked them not because they’re my favorites, but because they are the most different from what we’re used to.

This is IM Fell.

This is Lobster.

This is Reenie Beanie.

All I had to do was add to the section of this page (and same for the other fonts) and then I was able to assign the font-family tag with CSS.

It’s a very limited set of fonts for now, but I’m sure as it gets expanded I’ll find ways to use this technique to improve the typography of the sites I design.

I love this project first because she said it’s therapeutic for her to shape and share her thoughts with her friends, and I like that I wasa part of letting her do that, and because it turns out she’s a great blogger. She’s a total natural who picked up the use of WordPress as quickly as she found her voice as a writer. If you have a second, see for yourself and maybe leave a note in the guestbook to let her know you’re thinking of her!

And here’s an interior page, where you can see a product listing that ties into the shopping cart.

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Here’s an interior page.

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