Kickstart new Google web fonts
Summary: As a Free Software stalwart, I’ve long considered Google Web Fonts a magnificent service: the fonts are Free, and Google hosts them for free, so that everyone can have web fonts on their websites.I also came across Kickstarter a few months ago, via the educationalist Phil Shapiro, and have indeed contributed to the book Don’t Go Back to School.
As a Free Software stalwart, I’ve long considered Google Web Fonts a magnificent service: the fonts are Free, and Google hosts them for free, so that everyone can have web fonts on their websites.
I also came across Kickstarter a few months ago, via the educationalist Phil Shapiro, and have indeed contributed to the book Don’t Go Back to School.
Now Google Web Fonts are promoting type design projects, to bring more Free fonts to the masses. I would supply a link but Google have deigned to use JavaSript to load frames, alas. Instead, you’ll have to make do with a screengrab:
Google Web Fonts promoting Kickstarter typography projects
Big smiles all round, the combination of private venture capital and Free Software principles :)
PS Font Squirrel is another fantastic service for creating web fonts, focussing on free commercial usage.
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