Comments on: Five Steps to Font Freedom

By: kredit

kredit — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:16:45 +0000

For websites you don’t need so many fonts normally.

By: Fussball Polen

Fussball Polen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:02:35 +0000

I think you are missing the point. It is not fault of the font companies, it’s web technology. Are you suggesting that if I go to your site, I should be prompted to download a font to see your site? Now, that would really increase site traffic! If you are so obsessed with fonts, you should take a look at sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement).

By: plain myspace layouts

plain myspace layouts — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:56:11 +0000

Interesting, thank you very much.

By: online arzt

online arzt — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:33:18 +0000

Websites are finally embracing usability and clear standardized presentation through CSS and I worry that opening up our pages to any typeface will lead some designers, right or wrong, to set some of those classic faces like Garamond at 8 or 9 point which could be a big step backwards from the users perspective.

By: Haustiere

Haustiere — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:20:42 +0000

Type Designers: What if you liscensed your work out to the websites, not to the end user? Then, you see, you’d get paid, but also anyone who visited the site would be able to see it typeset the way it was meant to be seen. And the owner of the site was responsible for maintaining this read-only version of your work? I mean, isn’t the point of designing a typeface so it can be used?

same in music industry. people form obscure bands named arctic monkeys or, even worse , clap your hands say yeah. they give away mp3s. they are a bloody success and sell huge quantities of records.

By: Firma kostenlos eintragen

Firma kostenlos eintragen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:13:14 +0000

That statement invalidates all the ensuing arguments. I’ve heard it often, because it is easy to blame everything on some Evil Empire being greedy. I started the FontFont label 16 years ago and still have to work every day. Nobody has become a millionair designing type. It takes at least 100 hours to design and produce a family of 4 weights. So much for recreating Garamond, Bodoni et al. Go ahead, have fun!

By: Restaurant

Restaurant — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:21:13 +0000

ype Designers: What if you liscensed your work out to the websites, not to the end user? Then, you see, you’d get paid, but also anyone who visited the site would be able to see it typeset the way it was meant to be seen. And the owner of the site was responsible for maintaining this read-only version of your work? I mean, isn’t the point of designing a typeface so it can be used?

By: Sean McManus

Sean McManus — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:47:59 +0000

This is an interesting point, and it's how we've ended up with fancy text being sent as images, which causes all kinds of accessibility and spiderability problems. One technique that's often overlooked is font embedding, where the font is sent over the internet with the web content. At the moment only IE supports it, and it's only possible when font creators haven't put embedding restrictions in their fonts. But it does create a lot of new creative opportunities, particularly if you're using one of the free fonts out there that are actually any good. I've written a tutorial on font embedding and an example on my website.

By: tshirts

tshirts — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:40:35 +0000

Firstly, I’m not reading your page on Arial because I don’t use Windows, I use Linux Ubuntu.
Which gives me a whole range of free fonts to use to my delight.

The only problem with them is that if I send a document to someone else, it obviously just pops up as Arial on their side because they still use Windows. However, if I make something a PDF, then everything is in its own unique font ‚Äì and it looks so much better and so much more original.

Best way to go to get fonts opensource for everyone? Support opensource fully, such as Ubuntu as an operating system.

By: myspace layouts

myspace layouts — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:39:11 +0000

Thank you very much for the great article.