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thomaspark / fontcdn

Search tool for Google Fonts
https://thomaspark.co/projects/fontcdn/
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Add the "Early Access!" fonts and lorem ipsum in other languages #9

Open lflee opened 8 years ago

lflee commented 8 years ago

Hi Thomas,

I have two feature requests -

  1. Add the "Early Access!" fonts (https://www.google.com/fonts/earlyaccess) to http://fontcdn.org/, maybe add "Early Access!" to "Category"?
  2. I know I can type manually in the "Preview Text" box. But I just come across an idea that make "Preview Text" as a dropdown menu and put some well-known languages lorem ipsum (e.g. Spanish, Arabic, Russian, etc). That would help people around the world a lot as they can preview and compare fonts instantly with your existing UI.

I know I can fork and write it myself. But my coding is at a very elementary level. So, go to you first. Maybe my ideas are not necessary and you would let me know.

Thanks!

thomaspark commented 8 years ago

Thanks for the great suggestions!

I like the idea of including the Early Access fonts, but it doesn't look like they're supported by the Google Fonts API: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/developer_api

FontCDN currently has several different preview texts, which you can cycle through by clicking the Reload icon. I'd be happy to add lorem impsums for other popular languages if you have recommendations.

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lflee commented 8 years ago

Yeah, I knew that "cycle" feature. I think, maybe add the 10 or 15 most used languages in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers)? That would cover a whole lot more developers, and their service's users.