Don't know much about popularity of gwf, but you can download the fonts and
load them locally from your server/site instead of contacting google servers
as ryan said. Read faq:
http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/faq.html#Download_Fonts

If your interest is to use a system serif font instead say metrophobic, then
is a matter of modifying the css, shouldn't be much of a hassle I think =/

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ryan Dewhurst <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The first I had heard of them is when I used the following Wordpress theme:
> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/liquorice
>
> I do know that you can also download the fonts to use rather than having to
> link to them within the page.
>
> Apart from that, I don't know much about them.
>
> Ryan
>
> Ryan Dewhurst
>
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>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Sven Aluoor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone have experience with Google Web Fonts? It seems that every
>> webmaster can embed Google Web Fonts in his site. Which means when I
>> visit example.com the fonts will be loaded from Google servers.
>>
>> Howto block Google Web Fonts and replace by local system fonts? Howto
>> see which sites are using Google Web Fonts already? Are Google Web
>> Fonts popular?
>>
>> Desc from Google
>> --------------------------
>> Google Web Fonts lets you browse all the fonts available via the
>> Google Web Fonts API. All fonts in the directory are available for use
>> on your website under an open source license and are served by Google
>> servers.
>>
>> cheers Sven
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