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Very cool. This is only tangentially related, but I was surprised (and delighted) to see that Ideal Sans is available for free from Google web fonts. It is one of the truly top-tier fonts on Google web fonts; so if you're considering a sans... (I really don't have a dog in this fight; just passing along a deal)

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Ideal Sans is a proprietary typeface by the Hoefler & Frere-Jones type foundry, and it is most definitely not available for free on Google Web Fonts. http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLin...

Ideal isn't even available on Typekit. HFJ is fussy about webfonts.

According to Jason Kottke HFJ has their own webfonts service in private beta. He's using their Whitney font with this new service in his redesigned site:

http://kottke.org/12/03/kottkeorg-redesign-2012-version

Frere-Jones (I think it was him?) recently gave a talk about HFJ's web font strategy. My understanding is that it's going to be idiosyncratic.

Whoops, my (really) bad! I don't know why I remembered this incorrectly. Google web fonts has Open Sans--not bad by Google web fonts standards, but no ideal sans. http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans

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