Want to know how a typeface will look before adding it to your site? Google's new Font Previewer gives you a visual as you tinker with the look and feel of a font, then sits out a block of code for ...
Casey Henry, a designer with the company, wrote that Google Sans Flex "allows the font's letterforms to shape-shift at different scales." OpenType Font Variations is the standard Google uses for ...
Google Fonts, the company's archive of free, open source fonts, lists more than 800 typographic designs. But Noto Serif CJK, which the company unveiled today, is unique in its utility. It looks ...
The font company is releasing patented compression technology in an attempt to bring faster, nicer fonts to the Web, and Google is helping out the effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...
Among the thousands of features on your smartphone, one you’ve probably never thought about is which fonts it uses. Typography is involved in almost everything we do on our devices — the emails we ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Web typography just got a shot in the arm from Google, as the company has announced a free, open-source library of 18 typefaces that Web designers will now have at their disposal. Google hosts all the ...
As someone who is really into fonts, I know that most people don’t share my passion — but I genuinely think that anyone who cares at all about typography will have some interest in what Google ...
It was merely four years ago that Google debuted Christian Robertson’s titular Roboto family of fonts, if you can believe it. Since then, the typeface that’s come to characterize Android has made its ...