Free fonts, list here:

http://www.edgefonts.com/

An API would be nice, but we could start with just a static list directly in the module, like we did with Google before they had an API.

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#2 fontyourface-Edge_Fonts_PoC_2-1794540-2.patch6.73 KBDrave Robber
#1 fontyourface-Edge_Fonts_PoC-1794540-1.patch5.31 KBDrave Robber

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Drave Robber commented
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Proof of concept attached.

The list contains just three fonts with four variants, and preview is not implemented yet, but other than that it even works.

(edit: works to an extent - Abril Fatface does not work because I confused 'font name' and 'family name')

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Drave Robber commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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new fontyourface-Edge_Fonts_PoC_2-1794540-2.patch6.73 KB

Second attempt:
- fixed css_family issue,
- implemented preview,
- reworked font naming more in line with that used by the provider (we omit 'Regular' though),
- moved helper function providing human-readable descriptions of weights to the .inc file,
- added some more fonts (manually for now, but I'm thinking about writing a scraper for this).

To do:
- implement handling of subsets (as there are two choices - 'default' and 'all' - at the moment, this could be a global configuration).
- implement some logging and such.

Work in progress, but it still could use some review.

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Drave Robber commented

Upon scraping the whole list (860 fonts in 501 families), the thing got quite huge (.inc file is 70+k), so I created a temporary sandbox for it.

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sreynen commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Sandbox looks good to me. I committed it.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.