Today Google has released something very interesting, a Font API and directory that offers high quality open source web fonts for web developers. At first glance these fonts are extremely easy to integrate with just a few lines of code needed.
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.
The interesting part of the subject of baking fonts into images and using font replacement scripts is actually how ‘searchable’ they are. Now with Google Font API you should be more comfortable in the fact that if Google have developed this, they ‘must’ be search engine friendly… right?
How to integrate the Google Font API
Getting started using the Google Font API is easy. Just add a couple lines of HTML:
<link href=’http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine’
rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’>
body { font-family: ‘Tangerine’, serif; }
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