[thelist] Liquidity and giftext

[Erika Meyer]

I knew someone who liked to use... what do you call it.. font 
embedding... where you send the client the font along with the web 
page.  Everything had to be Letter Gothic Egg.

It slows the download a bit, but the reason I wouldn't it is because 
most Windows machines pop up a scary warning window before the font 
loads, asking you if you want to accept this alien file being 
downloaded onto your computer.  (something like that.)

Anyone with any level of paranoia/caution will click "no" when 
presented with this window.  And so they don't see the page, much 
less your hand-picked font.

This was 1.5 years ago, so my info is dated, but I haven't seen much 
about font-embedding lately...

If font-embedding were seamless, fast, and easy, it would be a nifty 
idea.  But in my experience, it is not.

Erika


>But... Has anyone on the list had the opportunity to work with font
>embedding?  I've seen it used on word.com and (duh) bitstream.com but
>am naturally reluctant to consider it as a design option until I can
>make some predictions as to how well it can actually be implemented in
>MY projects (e.g. little/no financial or logistical support as regards
>production).

erika at seastorm.com
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