A portion of the fontmap of Google Fonts generated by a designer from Ideo (http://fontmap.ideo.com)
Kevin Ho, software design lead at Ideo, created a fascinating tool to explore the 750+ typefaces available on Google Fonts. I’m not a designer,1 and I use only a small number of fonts,2 so I don’t need this tool, but I’ve been fascinated by printing and typography for several decades. I can’t stop playing with this fontmap, and I had to share the fun. There’s a nice article at Fast Company describing the project and how Ho used two open source algorithms to create it. Maybe future versions of Word will provide a fontmap to explore choices instead of vertical lists.
1If you know me, you know how clumsy I am and how little artistic or design ability I have. You can stop laughing at me now.
2Optima is my font of choice for nearly all of my professional correspondence.