The Google Font API & Google Font Directory
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.
Getting started using the Google Font API is easy. Just add a couple lines of HTML:
1 1 <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Tangerine', serif; }
The Google Font API hides a lot of complexity behind the scenes. Google’s serving infrastructure takes care of converting the font into a format compatible with any modern browser (including Internet Explorer 6 and up), sends just the styles and weights you select, and the font files and CSS are tuned and optimized for web serving. For example, cache headers are set to maximize the likelihood that the fonts will be served from the browser’s cache with no need for a network roundtrip, even when the same font is linked from different websites.
Fonts are open sourced and downloadable as well for print and local use. Make the web pretty folks!
Posted via web from Aaron Baer