Safari and Internet Explorer already support it*. Firefox and Opera will get it soon: Downloadable webfonts. Here is a collection of 10 great headline fonts you can embed in you website free of charge … Tweet
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Firefox 3 will be the first major browser with support for kerning and automatic ligatures. I tested the Firefox 3 release canditate and I have to say, it’s not perfect yet. But first the good news: Kerning Kerning is an important feature in print typography but for most of the (rather small) texts we read […]
Embeddable webfonts (as introduced with Safari 3.1) are not just about using fancy fonts on web pages. It also opens new possibilities for using glyphs that are simply not available in the standard system fonts. Let’s say you are a linguist or archeologist and wan’t to set an ancient text and you need characters that […]
The new font embedding feature introduced with Safari 3.1 has already caused heated debates in the type industry. But what do web designers think about it? Do they want to use it? Will they be willing to pay for webfonts? I did a survey among web designers to find out. Many thanks to everyone who […]
Typographic variety is coming back to the Web. With the release of Safari 3.1 for MacOS and Windows, Apple’s web browser now supports font embedding for websites. Now millions of web users can view websites the way they were intended to be … Tweet
Die Schrifteinbettung in Webseiten steht wieder auf der Tagesordnung. Nein, ich spreche nicht von Technologien wie WEFT, TrueDoc oder sIFR, sondern von von OpenType-Schriften (TT/PS), die per CSS in jede beliebige Webseite eingebunden werden können.Die aktuelle Entwicklerversion des WebKit (“Safari”) kann es schon, Opera steht in den Startlöchern.Die Sache hat allerdings auch einen Haken. Von […]