New Ubunt Font Released

You can grab it from the packages site.
Click on "all" under "Download TTF..."
From there you just double click to install.

To implement the font you need to navigate to: System > Preferences > Fonts
Once there you can change all of the fonts from Sans to Ubuntu, and Sans Bold to Ubuntu Bold.
There is no mono-space Ubuntu font yet, so just leave that one alone

This is just me, but I found the following settings to produce the most readable content

• Application Font: Ubuntu @ 11
• Document Font: Ubuntu @ 10
• Desktop Font: Ubuntu - Bold @ 10
• Window Title Font: Ubuntu - Bold @ 11
• Fixed Width Font: Monospace @ 10

Another really pretty font, if you don't dig Ubuntu is Aler. It is available for free! To install it simply double click on the font and click "install font"

Simple enough right? God I love Ubuntu.

Google Font API - Strange Glitches

Google recently released fonts that are accessible to all free of charge. Web designers can now reference them and expand our typographic possibilites. Pretty nifty. Here is where shit hits the fan. If you download these fonts to use in mockups in Photoshop all web browsers (barring chrome) have a glitch where they call on the regular font from the system instead of the italic/bold/bolditalic font.

This glitch only effects Droid Sans, and Droid Serif. Which is strange in itself. So there are two take home messages I have for you:

1. If you want to speed up your page loading by downloading these fonts, just skip Droid Sans and Serif, there is some goofy glitch that isn't worth your time.
2. If you want to use these fonts in mockups install the fonts directly to the Adobe Commons font directory, not the system font directory. 
1. This can be done by navigating to C:\Program Files\Common Files\ Adobe
2. Then either creating or entering a folder called "Fonts"
3. Place any extra fonts in here

I had a heck of a time working this out because the new version of Adobe CS5 doesn't create a Fonts folder. Chaos!

So there you have it. Feel free to check out the font api. If you are in to typography you will be seeing these fonts pop up everywhere in the very near future.