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Google Webfonts in Games

#1 Post by PyTom » Mon May 24, 2010 12:53 am

As you may know, Google just released a bunch of open source fonts, through their webfonts initiative. The .ttf files for these fonts can be found in google's project hosting service, here.

I suspect many of these fonts could be useful in games.
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#2 Post by jack_norton » Mon May 24, 2010 1:02 am

Some of them are definitely nice :) downloading now!
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#3 Post by LVUER » Mon May 24, 2010 1:03 am

Perhaps you could add them to RenPy? And then in the option, users could choose what kind of font to be used in their games.
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#4 Post by IonicMomo » Mon May 24, 2010 1:29 am

These are great! Thanks! :D
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#5 Post by cloudyssky » Mon May 24, 2010 8:55 am

Thank you for the link. These are truly special fonts indeed.
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Re: Google Webfonts in Games

#6 Post by PyTom » Mon May 24, 2010 12:02 pm

cloudyssky wrote:These are truly special fonts indeed.
There's a window on that, though. I suspect that in a year from now, we're going to start seeing these fonts all over the web. That's why google open-sourced them, after all.
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#7 Post by pkt » Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:15 am

Come to think about this in a rather cynical way I don't see source code for these anywhere. I guess CC is a closer term. I like the term open source too though.
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Re: Google Webfonts in Games

#8 Post by PyTom » Sun Dec 19, 2010 8:39 pm

I just noticed that Google has open-sourced a bunch more fonts. What's more, there's now a download tab in their webfont viewer, so there's no need to go into their source code archive to find them.

http://code.google.com/webfonts
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