I’m curious which one would be better or more standard to use in websites. I’m leaning toward Google Web Fonts, but I’m apprehensive about needing an additional CSS file.
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I’m curious which one would be better or more standard to use in websites. I’m leaning toward Google Web Fonts, but I’m apprehensive about needing an additional CSS file.
Google web fonts API uses @font-face under the hood, so there isn’t a real technical difference. Google just provide a wrapper around font-face which handles some cross browser differences and gives you some convenience functions, kind of like what jQuery does for JavaScript.
https://developers.google.com/webfonts/docs/technical_considerations
Sure, it is some extra resources for your project and that’s a valid concern. And it’s some extra complexity that you have to maintain, and anyone new to the project has to learn. But maybe the trade-off is worth it for your project.
I know I’ve had times spent converting fonts to various formats so @font-face would work for multiple browsers, and Google web fonts would get rid of this work for you.