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		bd on May 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API ... On Windows 7 it looks the same (ugly aliased) everywhere (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Explorer). On Windows XP it's even uglier (according to BrowserShots screenshots linked upthread). On Ubuntu, Chromium and Firefox are pretty, Opera didn't render anything.

zokier on May 19, 2010 [–]

I need to try it tomorrow then at work. So it seems that the fonts themselves aren't that bad, they are just incompatible with most browsers.

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