{"id":24482,"date":"2011-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/beyond-times-and-arial-the-new-web-safe-fonts\/"},"modified":"2011-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:00:00","slug":"beyond-times-and-arial-the-new-web-safe-fonts","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/beyond-times-and-arial-the-new-web-safe-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Times and Arial &#8211; The New Web Safe Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Friday, February 18, 2011<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the past, when you created a website or web app, you were largely limited to a few select<br \/>\n  &#8220;web safe&#8221; fonts such as Times and Arial. If you deviated from these fonts, you were required to<br \/>\n  use Adobe Flash or to embed text in images, which introduced a whole new set of trade offs. For<br \/>\n  example, images aren&#8217;t semantic, cannot be translated into other languages automatically, and can<br \/>\n  be much larger in file size than text. In addition, text in images cannot be copied to a user&#8217;s<br \/>\n  clipboard, read with screen-reading software, or easily indexed by search engines.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The good news is, with<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webfonts\" class=\"external-link\">Google Web Fonts<\/a><br \/>\n  it is now possible to use hundreds of web safe fonts on your web pages.<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/googlecode.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/introducing-google-font-api-google-font.html\" class=\"external-link\">Launched last May<\/a>,<br \/>\n  Google Web Fonts allows you to simply choose the font(s) you&#8217;d like to use on your webpage, blog,<br \/>\n  or web app, and embed the snippet of HTML and CSS. In about 30 seconds, you can have beautiful<br \/>\n  fonts on your pages that will render correctly in the large majority of popular<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/webfonts\/faq.html#Browsers_Supported\" class=\"external-link\">modern web browsers<\/a>.<br \/>\n  No longer will you need to use images or Flash to embed the font of your choice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Unlike Times and Arial, which are references to fonts installed on a user&#8217;s local machine, web<br \/>\n  fonts are served via a browser request (much like an image would be served). That means you can<br \/>\n  push any web font to a user&#8217;s machine.  Users will be delighted when they realize these fonts<br \/>\n  behave just as any other text in Arial would behave.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some example web fonts, offered by the Google Web Fonts service\" src=\"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kb-gorsel\/g-e22df9567f86.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>\n  The adoption of the web font technology has been rapid. Google Web Fonts now serves roughly 50<br \/>\n  million daily requests[1], across roughly 800,000 unique websites[2], and is growing at about 30%<br \/>\n  each month. Here at Google, we&#8217;re excited about the potential for web fonts to change the very<br \/>\n  fabric of the web. Beautiful typography makes the web more pleasant to browse, expressive, and<br \/>\n  interesting.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to a beautiful Web!<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-author\">Written by David Wurtz, Product Manager, Google Web Fonts<\/p>\n<p>[1] A request is a single call to the Google Font API for one or more fonts.<\/p>\n<p>\n  [2] We count a unique website as unique domains, except that &#8220;www&#8221; subdomains are not counted. For<br \/>\n  example, www.myblog.com and myblog.com would count as one domain. However, sam.myblog.com and<br \/>\n  sally.myblog.com would count as two domains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, February 18, 2011 In the past, when you created a website or web app, you were largely limited to a few select &#8220;web safe&#8221; fonts such as Times and Arial. 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