.webfont proposal // Jul 16, 11:35 AM
I can’t wait for the day when I’ll be able to use a font in a webpage the way I use background images thourgh CSS without violating any licenses.
Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland are proposing a new font format for use on the web, aptly named .webfont.
It’s great to see so may foundries endorsing the format:
- Typotheque
- H&FJ
- Vllg
- House Industries
- Allegedly FontFont and Christian Schwartz too, but can’t find direct links
- Karsten Luecke Type Foundry (new find for me)
- Process
- Bold Monday (another new one for me)
- Fonthead
- Mark Simonson
- Type Supply and LettError (these are, well, obvious…)
It seems like this list is about to get outgrown instantaneously.
Type foundries are after all a key to making it happen by supporting formats like this one and revising their current or introducing new licences (take clues from Typotheque). If FontShop, for example, also endorsed the proposed format, what a wonderful environment to be a web designer. On further reflection, wouldn’t this be an opportunity for smaller foundries to gain font market share in an industry dominated by big guys?
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