[OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

[Garrick Van Buren]

I agree there are business reasons for Google hosting fonts, but I'm not as confident about tying them to better targeted advertising. I think it's more about them reducing licensing fees on their end for their own apps (think Google Docs etc). 

http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/google-offering-droid-for-font-face-use


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On May 23, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 10:58 +0200, Schrijver wrote:
>> nice.
>> Yet; if they’re open to font contributions, why don’t they just mirror the catalogue of OFLBv2?
> 
> By encouraging people to use an API, Google makes sure most people will
> refer to the fonts on their site, and this lets them add a cookie, and
> track visitors to more Web sites, helping them to learn more about
> people, and present them with better-targeted advertising. So there's a
> fairly clear (as I see it at least) business reason for them to do this.
> 
> Liam
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