google web fonts

**Tao jones** · 27 July 2011, 01:40 AM

Hi, I don't know if this has been covered, I came across googlewebfonts. So I thought I would try them out in xara. I have attached a zip webfile with the fonts I used and also attached an image of what the page should look like. I wanted to see if anyone had trouble seeing the fonts within their browser....thanks tao

http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select

**amoore** · 27 July 2011, 03:07 PM

Hi Tao

I've been wondering about web fonts, in general. I've loaded the Byron Bay page. Looks good, although it was a little slow to load. The TaoJones page still hasn't come up. Perhaps you're working on it.

**gwpriester** · 27 July 2011, 03:15 PM

Hey Roger - Been a while.

I am not sure if these work the way other web fonts do, but my understanding is the fonts reside on Google's servers and are downloaded semi-instantly to the visitor's browser when they visit your page.

**wizard509** · 27 July 2011, 08:34 PM

Both look good to me. The http://taojonesphotographer.com/ loaded slow but that too looked good on my monitor. I'm using opera 11.5

**ShapeShifter** · 27 July 2011, 08:46 PM

Larry I think TJ wanted you to check the link in his post, rather than his signature which don't have any google web fonts or are even xara made web sites.

**Tao jones** · 28 July 2011, 01:49 AM

Hi Gary, yep been a while put I always check-in, always good to do your tutorials. I have just put a index file up with only the google fonts on it and a couple of my pics, seems to work well and load fast this end but I have the fonts on my machine. If you could check it out for me to see if there is any potential drawbacks from using these fonts it would be much appreciated. I think it would be good to have the ability to use some different fonts than the standard.....thanks roger

http://graphicdesignbyronbay.com/ this link google fonts

**Soquili** · 28 July 2011, 04:12 AM

Hi Roger on first visit the page takes about 5 or 6 seconds to load on my 12MB dsl. Subsequent visits are much faster because of the caché.

Excellent photos, I especially like the one of BB King. I've been a fan of BB King for ages.

**amoore** · 28 July 2011, 03:42 PM

The test page came up really fast for me.

And I agree with Bill about the picture of BB King, although I like the other one, too. Good stuff.

**gwpriester** · 28 July 2011, 06:46 PM

Hope you get lots of work from this page Roger.

It loaded slow for me too the first time.

**xtom** · 01 August 2011, 06:25 PM

The pages display fine here aswell but each font used obviously adds to the load time. If you were using them for real I guess you'd limit use to 1 or 2 web fonts on a page, even then you'd have to consider is it worth the extra page load time.