[thelist] Downloadable fonts : good idea ?

Peter-Paul Koch gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 18 10:01:01 CST 2002


>Embedded fonts.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/web/embedding/weft3/expert.htm
>
>http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/intro/
>
> > So why aren't people using this feature more often ?
>
>Personally (no offense intended!), I wouldn't care to build double page
>sets (with browser sniffers!) just so I could use cutsie fonts on my sites.
>Standard system fonts for me, otherwise, I might do some graphics for the
>cutsie fonts.

Strictly speaking that's not necessary, because you can combine two style
declarations that arrange separate downloads for NN and IE. No need for
coding two pages.

http://www.tijs.org/embed/

However, when we tried to create our own font (a slightly modified version
of an existing one), this code failed. So it isn't fail-safe.

ppk

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