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Tim Brown from nicewebtype.com designed a beatiful webfonts demo page using Graublau Sans Web. If you use a browser capable of linking TrueType/OpenType fonts try the demo page – otherwise take a look at the screenshot.
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When Apple introduced its @font-face support in Safari 3.1 in March 2008 it caused heated debates in the type industry, because in order to embed a TrueType or OpenType font in a website, the fonts need to be uploaded to a public server, free for everyone to be downloaded. But the users keep requesting the use of commercial fonts on websites.
Now more and more commercial font foundries have overcome their shock and have announced to support @font-face embedding for their fonts. Most notably, David Berlow of the Font Bureau has just announced that their fonts will soon be available for @font-face embedding. Font Bureau introduces a new permission table included in the fonts, but this table is currently not technically enforced in any way, so there are no limitations like the URL-binding feature of the EOT format.
I am keeping track of foundries supporting @font-face embedding on this Webfonts.info Wiki page.
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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.
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Posted on 25. Okt, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
The latest beta and the nightly builds of Firefox 3.1 now support webfonts. Here is a sneak peek at the features and the differences to Safari’s @font-face support.
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Posted on 05. Aug, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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 …
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Posted on 19. Jun, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
Yes, I do love .info domains. After typografie.info, fonts.info and opentype.info here is a new project: webfonts.info. A place to bring the people together, who are involved or interested in downloadable webfonts. The site has a forum for discussions and a Wiki with a generous Creative Commons license to collect information, links and code samples.
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Posted on 14. Mai, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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 are not available in Arial or Lucida Grande. Putting little images inside the text was the only way to do it – so far. But the images wouln’t scale and copy & paste of such a text wouldn’t work properly. But with webfonts you could do those things smoothly – and much more. Here are two examples …
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Posted on 19. Apr, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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 participated!
Here are the results …
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Posted on 03. Apr, 2008 by Ralf Herrmann.
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 …
