There are over 600 typefaces in the Google web fonts directory. Many of them are awful. But there are also high-quality typefaces that deserve a closer look. Here are examples of these typefaces in action.
- Abril Fatface
- Cardo
- Gentium Book Basic
- Gravitas One
- Lato
- Merriweather
- Old Standard TT
- Open Sans
- Oswald
- Playfair Display
- PT Mono
- PT Sans
- PT Sans Narrow
- PT Serif
- Vollkorn
View the samples: https://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type
To view and update the repo locally, start the Jekyll server and watch the Sass files with:
rake serve