Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Web fonts and standards
As far back as 1998, CSS2 provided a way to link to real fonts from your style sheet:
@font-face {
font-family: 'Watusi';
src: url('http://www.example.com/fonts/watusi.ttf')
format('truetype');
}
h1 {
font-family: 'Watusi', sans-serif;
}
Instead of static pictures of fonts, linked font files can be retrieved from the web and used to display HTML text. And not just for headlines, but for body copy, too. It’s brilliant! It’s magnificent! There are just two problems...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that) – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that) – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report: "Thus, as we consider integrating real fonts into our designs, we must navigate between browsers that support @font-face now (Safari), those that will do so soon (Opera, Chrome, Firefox), and the one that possibly never will (IE, with a dwindling but still overwhelming market share).
The person who figures out a designer-friendly solution to all this will either be hailed as a hero/heroine or get rich. Meanwhile, near-complete solutions of varying implementation difficulty exist. Read on:"