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 > > blog www.ethicalhack3r.co.uk > projects www.dvwa.co.uk | www.webwordcount.com > twitter www.twitter.com/ethicalhack3r > > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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