Developer API needs to include metadata on fonts, like

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download a JSON file listing Google fonts, as specified at 
https://developers.google.com/webfonts/docs/developer_api
2. From these fonts, try to figure out which ones are serif, sans-serif, 
cursive, etc., or which are narrow or wide, etc.
3. Compare with the metadata exposed at http://www.google.com/webfonts

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I was hoping that the JSON would have some useful metadata about the fonts, not 
just their variations and alphabets. Especially knowing what kind of category 
the font is, so that my program would know automatically to use as the fallback 
font (e.g. sans-serif, cursive).

When you look at the nice google webfonts preview tool, you'll see that there 
must be metadata stored for each font such as:
* Category - serif, sans-serif, display, cursive/handwriting
* Thickness
* Slant
* Width

These metadata would make it possible to do filtering and such like this nice 
web app does.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Latest JSON dump as of today.  On OS X, not that it should matter in this case.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kare...@me.com on 6 Nov 2012 at 9:40

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Thanks for reporting this :) Its something the team are aware of, please be 
patient :)

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 6 Nov 2012 at 9:44

• Changed state: Accepted

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Hi there,

has there been any updates on this issue?

Thanks.

Original comment by sill...@gmail.com on 9 Feb 2014 at 8:31

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Original comment by pathum...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2014 at 4:27