Google Chrome with webfonts support?

Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by Ralf Herrmann in Webfonts

There has been some confusion about the support of @font-face in Google Chrome. The above screenshot was taken with a beta version that had support for @font-face, but the support disappeared again in later beta versions. As it turns out, support for @font-face is build into Chrome (since it is build on WebKit) but it is currently disabled for security reasons. You can active it if you run the executable with a command line switch of: --enable-remote-fonts. The support for @font-face might be activated again by default once the security issues are resolved.

8 Responses to “Google Chrome with webfonts support?”

  1. Seán Sloane

    16. Apr, 2009

    Don’t forget Camino 2.0betapre3, it also supports webfonts! :)

  2. blum

    08. Jul, 2009

    Opera 10 beta doesn’t seem to support OTF fonts, only TTF. And in Chromium 3 I don’t see any web fonts. Is @font-face only in Chromium 2, not 3?

  3. Adam

    28. Jul, 2009

    I accessed this page and in fact am posting from Chrome 3.0.195.1

    It doesn’t pick up fonts from any of the pages I have been playing with or from any online demos that I have come across either. IE 8 is the same and shows the default fonts.

    It looks fine in Firefox 3.5.1

  4. stk

    08. Sep, 2009

    Ralf – There is apparently some confusion regarding the switch name. The actual switch is “–enable-remote-font” (singular).

    Source

    Note: Incorrectly referred to in line item 1, but correctly referred to under “TEST”, as my own tests with winChrome verify.

  5. stk

    08. Sep, 2009

    LOL … I always make work for you … can you please change the switch to “–enable-remote-font” (forgot the double dash).

    Thanks.

    -stk

  6. stk

    08. Sep, 2009

    Weird … your comment system is munging the double dash, converting it to a single dash! :-p

  7. some

    23. Sep, 2009

    Indeed there is some confusion about if the switch should be in singular or plural. So I went to the authoritative source: the [url=http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/chrome_switches.cc]current source code[/url] used when compiling the browser. The answer? Plural: “–enable-remote-fonts”.

  8. some

    24. Sep, 2009

    Btw, for users of MSIE6,7 and 8, there are an awesome free plugin: the Crome Frame plugin! It’s an alternative to switch to another browser. After the plugin is installed, sites who send a special meta-header will be rendered by the chrome engine instead of the normal one! http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/

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