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by richadams 4514 days ago
Oops, sorry about that. Should be fixed now.
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Also, if you change the first line of http://wblinks.com/css/style.css

to

    @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Droid+Sans:400,700);
you should notice an improvement in the boldface font rendering.

Great article, btw.

OT, but how does this work? Why does it improve rendering? Is it downloading both the normal and bold weight rather than only one leaving the browser to do the rest?
Yes, you have it exactly right. The browser will try to make fonts bold on its own, but it's not a match for the bold that the designer intended.
>Is it downloading both the normal and bold weight rather than only one leaving the browser to do the rest?

Yes. The original URL only provides the normal weight (400), but you can specify other weights/styles[1]. 700 is the weight for bold and GP's URL requests both 400 and 700.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/fonts/docs/getting_started#Syn...

Thanks for the tip! CSS updated.
Since we're giving a little help here, you have two typos in this sentence.

> You can't change bucket names one you've creatd them, so you'd have to copy everything to a new bucket.

once and created

Thanks, fixed.
I can't zoom on Firefox mobile for Android