Google launched the Google Font Directory and Google Font API to help establish a core set of web fonts that can be used openly across devices and platforms. Recently, the Google team took some time to reflect on their progress, the adoption of web fonts in general, and on the current limitations. they shared some of the most interesting stats from their analysis:
- The Google Font API currently serves over 17 million requests [1] a day to users across the globe.
- they have seen a 30% month-over-month growth rate since we launched. (This corresponds to over 20x year-over-year growth.)
- Roughly 400,000 unique websites [2] use the Google Font API.
The adoption of the Google Font API has been fantastic, and they think it speaks to the potential of web fonts to change the web. Google isn’t the only player in this space to see promising adoption stats. In order to fully assess the state of the web font ecosystem, they worked together with their friends at Typekit. They performed a similar analysis and their results are equally exciting.
Although there is a long way to go for comprehensive browser and device support (especially for complex scripts like Arabic), they are highly optimistic. With web font adoption quickly gaining momentum, there will be increased pressure on the browsers and platforms of the world to support web fonts in a standard and consistent manner.
Posted by David Wurtz, Product Manager, Google Font API
Source : http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com/
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