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Tuesday, June 24 9:43 am/ Posted by Si / Permalink
Join us Sunday morning for the latest round of lively, charged debate around the thorny issue of fonts on the web. During a panel discussion at TypeCon Boston the community raised concerns around calls for browsers to start supporting raw font downloads. The “Web Fonts” scheme calls for fonts to be posted on web servers, downloaded and temporarily installed by browsers in order to render web pages. Earlier this year Apple’s Safari browser became the first to support the system.
No one can argue that improvements around fonts for the web aren’t long overdue, but the current scheme has various drawbacks. The most serious problem being that only freeware fonts can be used, with the fonts web designers want to use are completely off-limits, leading to fears that commercial fonts will be misused. Font tech guru Adam Twardoch will provide an overview of the story so far, and will be joined on stage by Roger Black, Bill Davis of Ascender, Si Daniels from Microsoft, Ted Harrison from FontLab and other industry leaders and pundits to discuss where we go from here. You can participate in the debate, and get up to speed on the issues, by reading the material and links posted to Ralf Herrmann’s new wiki/blog/forum webfonts.info.
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