All posts tagged Google Font API

Google Font API – new preview function

New preview tool for Google Font APIGoogle has now introduced a new preview feature in the Google Font API, that makes it easier to preview and configure different fonts and settings.

The Google Font API is a new way of spicing up your website layout without using images for font effects.

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Spice up your site with Google font API

Google font apiWith the new Google Font API you can easily create nice text effect on your site without using graphics. Making nice text effects on the web, normally requires creation of graphical images that contains the text, since only a few fonts are universally supported across different browsers and operating systems.

Text as images has the advantage of great control over the end result in the users browser, but also the problems with potentially slower download times due to the size of the image containing the text effect, and less flexibility in maintenance since changes to the text means creating a new image.

In this post we’ll take a look at the Google Font API, that offers a new solution to nice fonts on the web.

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