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Web Fonts!
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Ever since I started web design and hand coding HTML the limited fonts available to me was the bane of every layout. You would have to design to an adjustable layout to accommodate the variations in how different machines would render fonts.
Well, finally developers are getting serious about a solution. A system by which fonts could be uploaded to servers and called in via CSS to get exactly the font/effect you want. It may be while before a standard is accepted and fully installed in the user base, but it is promising that there seems to be a solution out there and now it is a matter of time for it to work its way into the system.
Two articles that help explain it all:
Technology Review – Gives a more complete picture with Microsoft format featured.
Ars Technica – Focuses more on the WOFF format and its origins.