@Richard Fink – Just the beginning indeed. A lot of complexities here. The more I read the more I realize how incredibly complicated this is; I’m grateful there are lots of very smart & knowledgeable people working on it.

- Kelley

One of the things web fonts is going to highlight for all of us is just how deeply cross-platform rendering differences go. The “web safe” fonts have largely shielded us from these things, so far.
And then there’s the question of how display technology fits into all of this?
This is the road we have to travel down now. Web Fonts are just a part of the readability mix. It’s going to take awhile to sort this stuff out.
It’s just the beginning.

Looks like a font loading bug in Firefox. I’ve logged this and will take a look at it as soon as I get a chance.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507584

As for the thinness of the face on Windows, that’s unfortunately how OpenType PS fonts render on Windows. They render with grayscale anti-aliasing, rather than subpixel antialiasing and that’s why it looks thin. I’ve been pestering the Microsoft folks about this and trying to get Adobe to do the same. For comparison, in Safari change the font smoothing preference from the default “Windows Standard” to see what it should really look like!! That renders using the Windows port of the Mac OS X font rasterizer rather than the Windows default rasterizer.

John Daggett
Mozilla Japan

Thanks for the mention. Although I don’t agree with you that the new EOT lite is a “bad” compromise. It’s garnered a lot of support.
Frankly, I find the whole Web Fonts situation so muddled, all I can say for sure is that font services are certainly a part of the future. As will be experimentation and confusion.
Developments over the next couple of months will tell us a lot.
Cheers,

Rich

However I’m not seeing the font as you intended either. In FF 3.5.1/Win (with ClearType enabled) I appear to be seeing p.interview-answer in Graublau Web Regular – definitely not italic. Looks OK but a little thin to be highly legible. In Safari 4.0.2/Win I get an ugly machine-imitation bold.

Yikes – I’d better triple-check the sites I’m working on with @font-face! Webfont services can’t get here fast enough.

Depends, you can also see it as usage.

The usage is subject to the terms of the End User License Agreement. Uploading commercial software to a public server is not allowed in any such license.

Btw. does the EULA of regular typefaces cover usage on websites via font-face? If not, we’d be free to use the raw files.

The license agreements always prohibit redristribution – and this is what you do, when you upload a font to a web server to be used with @font-face.