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Licence

The article lacks information on what license Google Fonts are under.

Good question. I found it here and added the information to the article. Hulten (talk) 19:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The "on average" fallacy

This statement has no value:

"...on average each of its 993 fonts has been downloaded over 19 billion times, and that each person on Earth has, on average, downloaded each font at least two or three times."

In fact, probably only a tiny percentage of the world's population has ever downloaded a single font from the collection. It's like putting Bill Gates into a room with 10 people on SNAP and then concluding that "...on average the people in the room had a net worth of $1 billion dollars." It's statistical legerdemain. Nicmart (talk) 02:59, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"If all fonts in the collection were printed at 500 points and taped together, they would reach to the moon and back 84 times!" Nicmart (talk) 03:03, 12 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

Nevermind this, I did a little bit of searching and I can't seem to find any reliable sources that comment on this. I suppose I've been fooled by a small minority of typographers into thinking that this is a big issue.

Should we add a criticism section? I've seen criticism of Google Fonts on a couple typography forums and in self-published articles (I don't have the links on hand, but will find and share on request). As far as I know, none of these meet the WP:RS criteria, but I'm sure if they were covered there I can find some reliable secondary sources that discuss the criticism.

To actually name the criticism, from memory it's mostly about the questionable quality of the fonts available from Google Fonts, as well as the problem with Google controlling yet another part of the web. /home/gracen/ (yell at me here) 16:11, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]