[OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

[Ed Trager]

I also have thought that by hosting the fonts, they will probably
start tracking font popularity, if nothing else.  It would be pretty
interesting, both for consumers of fonts and font authors, to have
actual data on the relative popularity of various fonts.

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Garrick Van Buren <garrick at kernest.com> wrote:
> 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).
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> 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:
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>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> Liam
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