http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/tags/font.com/default.aspxTags: font.comenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/01/11/compressed-web-fonts-from-google.aspxWed, 11 Jan 2012 16:30:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:18571Pete Prestipino0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=18571http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2012/01/11/compressed-web-fonts-from-google.aspx#comments<hr /> <p><b><img style="float:left;margin:10px;" src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/g-mini.gif" width="73" height="73" alt="" />Google&rsquo;s affinity for all things speedy is no secret. That is why it should come as no surprise that it has made yet another foray into making the Web even faster - at least as it relates to fonts. </b><br /><br /> On its official Code blog, Google announced this week a new way to make web fonts smaller (and faster) through collaboration with the Monotype Imaging Fonts.com Web Fonts team. <br /><br /> Google Web fonts now implements Monotype Imaging&rsquo;s MicroType Express compression format. Using gzip alone, the format should yield approximately 15 percent savings in file size. <br /><br /> Designers won&rsquo;t need to update their integrations as Google is upgrading the CSS snippet and font files which it has done for previous speed optimizations. </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=18571" width="1" height="1">googleweb fontsfontsfont.comspeedmonotype imaging