Automatically Install All The Google Web Fonts In Ubuntu Using A Script

sudo su

mkdir --parents /usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts

wget --quiet --recursive --no-directories --no-parent --accept "*.ttf" "https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ " --directory-prefix=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/google-fonts

fc-cache -f > /dev/null

Worked perfectly. Thanks!

Interesting. I wonder what all the new fonts are for?

Making the web look better and keeping it flash-free. CSS @font-face isn't working consistently across browsers so it requires quite a bit of javascript magic to fix it. Add to that the problem of font distribution and you've got quite a mess on your hand. So, web developers often used image replacement instead. Either regular image replacement (bad for search engines and pretty 1999) or flash based techniques.

Google's Font API solves all of this in one fell swoop.

Oh well, you're talking to a guy who edits his html in vi.

So how many bits of browsing data can Google gather from a site using this API? Let's see, there's the site that's calling it, and the browser that's using it, plus any cookies that might get sent with the request for the JavaScript...

I'll pass. "Google" != "trustworthy"

Besides, people who read my stuff generally use readable fonts in their browsers already, and I'm not going to override their font choices if I can help it.