Google Chrome with webfonts support?

Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by ralfherrmann 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?”

Seán Sloane

16. Apr, 2009

Don’t forget Camino 2.0betapre3, it also supports webfonts!
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?
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
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.
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
stk

08. Sep, 2009

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

Ralf Herrmann’s Typography Weblog

Google Chrome with webfonts support?

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