Web Fonts are here


There's an old saying: "It took me ten years to be an overnight success." We've been waiting for web fonts for at least a decade, and 2010 will finally be the year that web fonts go mainstream.

This is in no small part to the work both Typekit and Google have been doing. Today they both announced some very cool things in this area.

First up, Google announced that they are releasing high quality open source fonts in the Google Font Directory. Since these are open source you can even download the original font files yourself at the font code.google.com project.

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