Comments on: Commercial font vendors starting to allow @font-face embedding

By: blum

blum — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:54:09 +0000

ttf2eot has worked fine for me. It’s not complicated at all.

By: Peter Bilak

Peter Bilak — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:44:08 +0000

We at Typotheque will start supporting @font-face embedding for our own fonts this summer.

By: John Allsopp

John Allsopp — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:56:44 +0000

Ralf,

even half steps in the right direction are to be applauded! But, one thing foundries must note is that

For over a decade, this has been technically possible with IE
A tiny fraction of even leading edge web professionals use font linking (and those who do, overwhelmingly link to TT/OT fonts[1] )

Why?

I think it’s very important for font linking/embedding to be as simple as possible for developers to experiment with and use. Creating EOT files is frankly a royal pain, so the barrier to explore is really high.

But, I feel in my waters the day of font linking is coming to the web. I also suspect, in the long run the foundries will be very happy when it does, and kick themselves for the missed opportunities of the last decade or so (the online stock photo turnover is over $2 billion [2], so what would the font industry leaving on the table?

[1]http://www.webdirections.org/the-state-of-the-web-2008/css-and-other-presentation-technologies/#css-specifics

[2]http://www.stockphototalk.com/phototalk/stock_photo_industry/

By: ralfherrmann

ralfherrmann — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:01:31 +0000

The permission table is a side issue and I linked to this article for anyone who is interested in this topic. My post itself is about the fact that several foundries just announced to support @font-face (with TT/OTF fonts) or already support it – see the link to the webfonts wiki or this Typophile thread.

By: Mark Greve

Mark Greve — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:46:23 +0000

This is a little like running the headline “PORSCHE TO PRODUCE CARS THAT RUN ON PURE WATER!”, and then adding in paragraph two, “as soon as someone figures out how that’s technically possible.”

The post on the Font Bureau site is not an endorsement of @font-face, nor a commitment to support it. It is a proposal for extending the OpenType format to include light DRM. How anyone feels about that is their own business. Rolf, would you consider changing the headline of this piece to reflect that?