Now if only they could just fix their awful site…Īnyway, I’m probably missing out on a lot of fonts, so feel free to suggest your own favorites in the comments! There’s no reason anymore to use boring old Georgia (sorry, Georgia! I still love you!) or Arial anymore. There’s no denying that Google Web Fonts has become a tremendous resource for web design.
Playfair Display is a gorgeous serif that pairs well with Lato, as seen in The Rise of the Artist. Ropa Sans is a technological-looking sans that works well for headings. Imprima is a nice font reminiscent of Bree which you can see in use on Ronan Berder’s blog. It’s used beautifully on the Threadlife site. Varela is a great alternative to Proxima Nova, and like its more famous cousin it also comes with a Rounded version. It’s a round and narrow sans that comes in no less than 7 weights. Just take a look!ĭosis is another Pablo Impallari creation. Its worse offense is without a doubt how it manages to make even the nicest typeface look hopelessly crowded and unreadable thanks to poor typographic choices. But that’s best left for another article).
American typewriter font for docs code#
(Also, Google Web Fonts’ front-end code is a pretty strange mess of absolutely positioned divs with inline CSS styles. It’s visually ugly, clumsy to use, and it doesn’t even match Google’s new style as seen in Gmail or Reader. Go follow him on Twitter now if you want to learn about typography!) The User Interfaceįirst, let’s get one thing out of the way: Google Web Fonts’ user interface is still as bad as ever. (Note 2: a huge thank you to Ali who suggested a lot of these fonts and helped me with this article.
(Note: some of those fonts were already in the previous article since I kept updating it for some time, but I’m putting them here as well in case you missed the updates) (Quick plug: my new project Sidebar gives you the 5 best design links of the day.
American typewriter font for docs update#
I was originally planning to simply update my previous article with a couple new fonts, but to Google’s credit I came up with so many additions that I decided to simply write a new post.Īnd this time, I tried to include real-world visual examples whenever I could, since evaluating fonts over at Google Web Fonts can be less than optimal (to put it kindly).
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