Monotype's new Web Fonts API

Dave Crossland

Monotype today announced a new Web Fonts API with this nice table positioning it as a direct competitor to Google Fonts, with premium quality fonts and large families as the top 2 differentiators, and marketed to ad platforms:

http://demo-wfp.monotype.com/ - live demo

http://www.monotype.com/services/font-design/web-fonts/web-font-platform

Silas Dilworth

They forgot the "Price" column.

SiDaniels

It does say "Free Google Fonts" so that would be kind of redundant. At least there's no "You'll be secretly tracked for potentially vaguely misunderstood purposes" column to win over the tin foil hat brigade. ;-)

Dave Crossland

It does say "Free Google Fonts" so that would be kind of redundant.

I think Silas means, what does this wonderful service actually cost?  

At least there's no "You'll be secretly tracked for potentially vaguely misunderstood purposes" column to win over the tin foil hat brigade. ;-)

Google Fonts tracks very little, and what is tracked is publicly available in the GF directory Analytics page and the BigQuery fonts database; also the GF fonts can be self hosted by the truly paranoid.

Meanwhile, over on the other type discussion forum:

https://twitter.com/letterror/status/585806858830618625

https://twitter.com/typographica/status/598594948531888128

https://twitter.com/fontbullshit/status/598214366920577027

Deleted Account

This chart could well prove the undoing of my disbelieve in the usefulness of charts.