Google font directory

[nosecreek]

Google announced today a the new Google Font Directory. Does anyone have initial thoughts? It appears to have some connection to TypeKit. What I’m wondering is this: So far the reason I do not use @font-face is that most font render horribly in browsers on Windows XP. Will the fonts on the Google Font Directory be any better for this than those I was getting from font squirrel?

Edit: Here’s a screenshot from Firefox 3.6 on XP (via Adobe BrowserLab). Ugh. Looks like @font-face will continue to be held back by XP.

[TheDoc]

I’m on XP at the office here and all of the fonts look fine to me.

[nosecreek]

I believe the issue is that XP does not have ClearType enabled by default. If it has been enabled the fonts look fine. Certainly I have tried viewing pages with font-face from my own copy of XP and had terrible results similar to the above screenshot.

[SpaciousMind]

I’m using their Nobile font on my site which looks great, but the ampersands have all dropped out… when I make the font weight bold they reappear, but I don’t want bold text.

I’m using the proper &… Back to Lucida Grande and Verdana I guess. :cry:

Anyone else encounter this? Am I doing something wrong?

[ChrisRadford]

If it’s in the bold but not regular version of the font it may well be that the ampersand character has been missed out by mistake/stripped out by mistake. Won’t be anything you’re doing wrong.

[SpaciousMind]

What’s weird is on Mac FF/Safari the ampersand is there, on IE it’s not… shocking: IE sucks yet again.

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