Web-Font-Load
Install all Google Web Fonts onto your local machine.
There are some awesome fonts available from Google Fonts, but I’m not sure I’d want all them installed locally. Still, it’s nice to know that I can have them, if I change my mind.
Tagged: web font
google-webfonts-helper
A Hassle-Free Way to Self-Host Google Fonts. Get eot, ttf, svg, woff and woff2 files + CSS snippets!
I’ve been using localfont for this purpose, but this looks good, so the next time I need to self-host some Google Fonts, I might give it a try.
Typespiration.com
Free inspirational web font combinations with color palettes and ready-to-use HTML/CSS code.
Some nice web font combinations and colour palettes. Also, see backstory about the site’s relaunch.
localfont.com
Download fonts from googlefonts.
Because sometimes it’s good to load resources from your own server.
Transport New Web Font
Web font || webfont? Either way, this site is now using the Transport New font. The process of picking a font for this site probably took longer than it needed to, but I wanted to choose something a bit different. I knew I didn’t want to use a font from the Google Fonts service, every man and his dog uses those, but I wasn’t too sure where else to look. With this in mind, I decided that I’d just wait until I found something I really liked.
So, the other day I was researching fonts for a project at work and I came across Transport New, and I instantly knew that I wanted to use it. The font is a redrawing of the typeface (New Transport) designed for British road signs and it was created by K-Type, a small, independent type foundry based in Manchester, England.
The font cost just £12 with a commercial license, which permits @font-face use without any pageview limitations. The download only contained TTF and OTF versions, so I headed over to Font Squirrel and used their excellent generator service to create a webfont kit. I’m really pleased with how it looks on this site, I think it’s rather spiffy.
P.S. The only issue with using the font on this site is that I’ve had to add it to my WordPress theme’s .gitignore file, so that I don’t illegally distribute it via the theme’s GitHub repo.
UPDATE 2016-01-16: The webfont lasted less than 48 hours on this site. I wasn’t entirely happy with its weight (it was a little too heavy), so I removed it. Oh well, the search goes on.