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January 27, 2011

21 New Web Fonts from Google Fonts

  • Tim Brockman
  • @ 7:52 pm
Filed under: Foo+Design+Code — Tags: , ,

The 28th of December Google released 21 new fonts for 2011. If you haven't yet, it is time to check them out. No doubt this will inspire some great web design in 2011.

  1. Ubuntu
  2. Mountains of Christmas
  3. Cabin
  4. Merriweather
  5. Kristi
  6. Just Another Hand
  7. Buda
  8. Coda
  9. Gruppo
  10. Lekton
  11. Copse
  12. Allan
  13. Corben
  14. Geo
  15. Anonymous Pro
  16. Vibur
  17. Bentham
  18. UnifrakturMaguntia
  19. Kenia
  20. Syncopate
  21. Sniglet

Hope the first month of the 2011 has been good to you. Cheers.

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