Toby's Development Blog Just another PHP / Javascript Developer

I had read some tweets earlier today about the Google Font API and thought I would check it out.

Normally the way these things go down is I view the demos and have every intention of trying it myself but there are usually just a couple too many steps involved for the time I have allotted to dicking around the interwebs but this was so quick and so straight forward that I have eliminated cufon from this site in about 5 minutes.

Here are the steps I used;

1. Follow the link above.
2. Click on the font you want.
3. Click get the code.
4. Copy and paste the link into the head of your page.
5. Update your CSS with a copy/paste.
6. Done! (well, I also had to jump onto Wordpress and turn off Cufon in a settings page, but that is specific to my template.)

I am not a designer so I don't really know if those fonts are any good or not from a design point of view, but the potential for breaking away from the standard websafe fonts is huge!