If a visitor does not have the typeface you have used on your website, they have to download it on the spot, which in the days of dial up, is a no go. At this point, if you’re a web designer, the only typefaces you can reasonably select are the ones that you can be sure every personal computer owner already has installed on his or her machine. Rewind to the dawn of the modern Internet: 1996. First we need to breeze through some basic questions.
Here we’re going to take a quick tour that will tell you what you need to know to use this service intelligently, whether you are a newcomer or a Google Fonts veteran. In June they released a brand new version of the website, and it is glorious. Mockup of a component of the new Google Fonts website, via Google As an increasingly design-oriented company, Google evidently saw that a major UI/UX redesign was in order. It got the job done, but it wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t especially easy to use.
The original website was definitely what the startup world would call an MVP: minimal viable product.
Over the next six years it grew considerably, becoming very popular with web designers-for the obvious reason of affordability. Google launched Google Fonts in 2010 to provide web fonts free of charge.
