Tired of always using the same fonts on your websites?

Currently, when creating a website, the choice of fonts is limited. Here is the current list of fonts usually available on a large number of computers.
Indeed, each system uses its own fonts. If a website uses a font missing on your computer, the browser replaces it with the closest. Even if the browser makes the effort to display an "almost the same" font, changes in kerning (spacing between letters) and heights of characters can deface the site. To avoid those concerns, web developers use the short list of fonts mentioned above. Those are present on Windows, Linux & Mac.

Why talk about Google? Google offers a new tool for developers to overcome this problem. The days of websites using the same font is about to end. The desired font is installed on a distant server. A line of code is added in the html pages and the browser displays the correct font on the screen of the visitor, even though he did not have it on his computer. For the moment Google offers a few free fonts on its servers. After all, Google uses the same principle as the property @font-face. This CSS property loads the font previously installed on the server by the webmaster. The browser then displays the correct font. This leads to two difficulties :

• Even if the computer contains the font requested by the site, the browser does not use it. It automatically loads the font from the server.

• The fonts are easily downloaded from the server hosting the website. Font publishers are concerned about the non-respect of their licenses. Yes, a font that you buy is not supposed to be downloaded illegally and shouldn't be used on a commercial or personal that easily !

Let's wait and see what solution will be adopted by developers and how proprietary font publishers will answer.