Firefox 3.5 with support for webfonts is out. This demo page by Ian Lynam & Craig Mod shows how commercial webfonts can enrich a website. The demo page uses subsetted versions of fonts from the Dutch foundry Underware and “is intended to show what will be possible once foundries revise their EULAs allowing for high-quality professional level fonts to be referenced in CSS“.
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Beautiful type animation build with colored empty folders on MacOS X.
Folder Type from Emilio Gomariz on Vimeo.
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The team of Opera was actually one of the first ones which worked on an @font-face implementation for linked TrueType/OpenType fonts. But this feature never made it in any of the final released. In Opera 10 it should finally happen and you can try it yourself with the public beta. Here is a short test [...]
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Now you can also follow me on twitter. I will use this account mainly for comments and discussions about webfonts.
http://twitter.com/opentype
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Tim Brown from nicewebtype.com designed a beatiful webfonts demo page using Graublau Sans Web. If you use a browser capable of linking TrueType/OpenType fonts try the demo page – otherwise take a look at the screenshot.
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Commercial font vendors starting to allow @font-face embedding
Posted on 20. May, 2009 by ralfherrmann.
When Apple introduced its @font-face support in Safari 3.1 in March 2008 it caused heated debates in the type industry, because in order to embed a TrueType or OpenType font in a website, the fonts need to be uploaded to a public server, free for everyone to be downloaded. But the users keep requesting the use of commercial [...]
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Grafica Fidalga, a printing press in São Paulo, Brazil, makes posters on a 1929 German letterpress using hand-carved wooden letters.
(via praeganz.de)
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The latest 2.0 beta of Google Chrome now also supports linked TrueType or OpenType fonts. This comes as no surprise, since Chrome is based on the Webkit framework, which supports @font-face for a while now.
So we now see webfont support for TrueType/OpenType fonts in Safari (3.1 and higher), Firefox (3.5), Opera (10) and Chrome (2.0.157 [...]
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The old Swiss traffic sign font is called SNV (“Schweizerische Normen-Vereinigung”). It is a very geometric typeface with obvious legibility problems.
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Do you know your VAG from your Bembo? Play the font game …

