Google Font Directory
code.google.com
code.google.com
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
Seriously, Chunk Five and League Gothic would be some great additions to this list.
Every OS, and every browser on that OS renders text differently. Read this for more on that: http://24ways.org/2009/real-fonts-and-rendering
I recently wrote a silly article, mainly to see how the typography will shape the whole feel of the webpage at http://www.sushaantu.com/moustache.html It looks awesome to me on my Ubuntu Chromium 7 but sucks on Firefox 3 of Windows and OSX.
Google Font Directory is indeed a great thing to make web little more beautiful but we need support from OS and browsers as well which are making steady pace.
– edit: Ah, that font doesn’t have a italic or bold variant, that explains it. Now I don’t know what could possibly be wrong with the rendering in OS X.
It really is a shame that maybe tops, 5 people are talking in this thread and most of us are seeing different renders
"This is, unfortunately, total f--kup.
Alas, besides Apple, all consortiums and big companies totally lack font culture. Microsoft is getting on a bit better - the fonts they ship are good by themselves, - but all the same they f--k up ratserizing and typography in the system.
To make sure of this, it takes only to open the same page on Mac, PC and some Linux. The question will stand no longer.
Google traditionally had failed at design. Founders’ standard of ideas doesn’t exceed American office aesthetics. Hence various holiday pictures, hence shadow under the logo, hence given fonts. All of them are done by the standard of free font collections and present samples of extremely low quality. Namely student’s amateur crap.
Fonts are so horrible, that I just want to sit down, cover my face with my hands and cry helplessly. As it will circulate million-strong, people will think that you can do it like this. These fonts will be used.
(Cries)"
translation by me, original: Business Lynch, 24 May 2010 (http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/business-lynch/2010/05/24...)
Artemy Lebedev is a founder and art director of the most prominent design studio in Russia, known for their attention to typesetting.
Art.Lebedev Studio have on their site a running daily feature called Business Lynch, where since September 2006 they do review and critique of one specimen of design, submitted by the site's readers. Reviews are done in informal manner and widely range in style.
Google is just getting started (I'm part of the fonts effort there) and there are fairly respected designers involved in the whole effort. Without buying in licenses it will take some time to reach a certain quality level but a lot of the fonts provided are high quality and have received praise as such - the quote implies they're all Wingdings :/
It's artifacts all the way down.
(Chrome 7 on Windows 7)
It's mentioned later in the thread, but this image explains everything: http://typophile.com/node/70216
Short answer: Windows has always had crappy font rendering. (Though some people like/prefer it for whatever reason. I'm not one of them.) It's going to get better eventually – look at the image for IE9 and FF 3.7.
You may also want to be sure you have Cleartype on.
Maybe it's my own status as a Mac user, but it's almost distracting to see the differences in font rendering between platforms.