Google’s Font Directory
This was an interesting bit of news today: Google is hosting web fonts now in their Google Font Directory - very interesting. The idea is that you go to this page, find a font you want to use by seeing how it's rendered in your browser, and then you get a line of HTML to download it, and you can then use it in your CSS as a font.
Impressive.
First, the preview tool is the browser - so you can actually see what you're going to be getting. Then, just as with the Google Visualization widgets, you have a single line to "import" the font, and then you're free to use it.
Clearly, they will see who's asking for what, and in doing that they are one step closer to world domination, but what the heck... It's a very nice way to preview the font for a web page, and then be able to be sure that your client will be able to see it in the way you wanted - regardless of what machine or fonts they have.
Very neat. I'm going to have to remember this.