more font choices than the person designing Esquire magazine’s website or the Ikea online catalog. —DEBORAH NETBURN, LOS ANGELES TIMES latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2010/05/the-changing-typography-of-the-web.html
} the GOOD IMAGE REPLACEMENT the BAD Any typeface Consistent rendering Typographic control Widest support Not dynamic Inefficient Text selection Images-off issue
the GOOD FLASH REPLACEMENT the BAD Reasonably secure Consistent rendering Wide support Licensing Configuration Text selection Text scaling No Apple love
CANVAS / VML REPLACEMENT the BAD Reasonably secure Consistent rendering No plugins Wide support Works on iPhone OS Licensing Font conversion Configuration Screen readers FOUT
format('opentype'); } the GOOD FONT-FACE EMBEDDING the BAD Real fonts on the web Web standards No plugins Licensing Rendering Security Page weight FOUT
protect against piracy Problem: browsers linking to raw font files —Foundries want their hard work protected Foundries use EULAs to control embedding —Some specify SWF, Cufón licences, most just PDF Obfuscation —All formats vulnerable to being “unwrapped”
New techniques and formats —Paul Irish: “Bulletproof @font-face syntax” —Web Open File Format (WOFF) Hosted “middlemen” solutions No single, standard format (yet)
of web fonts, will hasten the arrival of a licensing standard— and that this will, in turn, prompt Microsoft to support @font-face for any licensed font. —JEFFREY ZELDMAN, GODFATHER OF WEB DESIGN www.zeldman.com/x/54
subscription service, via JS+CSS FontSquirrel Library of free fonts, kit & file generators Kernest Free and paid subscription service FontFont Per-font fee, self-hosted or via Typekit Fonts.com Hosted service, free trial, via JS+CSS Fontdeck Private beta, CSS-only hosted solution Google Announced today, open-source library NEW!
TYPE League Gothic LEAGUE OF MOVEABLE TYPE Museo Sans EXLJBRIS Titillium ACCADEMIA DI BELLE ARTI URBINO Quicksand ANDREW PAGLINAWAN Goudy Bookletter BARRY SCHWARTZ
(typophile.com/node/70404) —Serve fonts as base64-encoded data URI —Cryptography —Referrer checking —Subsetting of glyphs —Use multiple files, recombine with font stack (skolar-1, skolar-2, etc.)
letterforms to the pixel grid and to determine which pixels should be greyscaled. —THOMAS GIANNATTASIO, SMASHING MAG www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/02/the-ails-of-typographic-anti-aliasing/
} }); </script> GOOGLE WEBFONTS Announced today, open-source webfonts library Launching with 18 fonts ready to use Teamed up with Typekit Typekit open sources its WebFont Loader NEW!
stepping stones to @font-face. 2010 is going to be the year of @font-face. —SIMO KINNUNEN, CREATOR OF CUFÓN www.newsurl.net/in-depth-the-future-of-web-fonts/