The case for "Web fonts" articulated...
The case for .zipped fonts attached to Web pages is made here by the W3C’s Hakon Wium Lie.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6085484.html
Apparently it’s Microsoft, not type designers that will suffer if the plan to support .zipped up fonts attached to Web pages is adopted by browser makers. Not sure I follow the logic, but oh well.
Cheers, Si
See also the previous thread.
19.Jun.2006 9.52pm
Previous thread... http://typophile.com/node/19502
19.Jun.2006 11.14pm
WOW!! Poor Mircosoft.
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Paul Ducco
Solid Creative
Communication Design, Melbourne
20.Jun.2006 6.40am
You’re right, blub - I had to get the violins out yesterday.
My favorite part is... “Font designers will find an outlet for their creativity” - reminds me of a scene in office Space...
You do want to express yourself don’t you?
20.Jun.2006 10.31am
I took Goodfish for a test run, and the results pretty much speak for themselves.
I compared Goodfish (the free web font) to three (Microsoft) fonts: Times New Roman, Georgia, and Constantia (from the new MS Office beta). I rendered the fonts in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP on an LCD screen.
All I can say is that ClearType does an awesome job!
So have a look and discuss.
No anti-aliasing:
Font-smoothing:
Cleartype:
20.Jun.2006 11.05am
Nice. Thanks Lauri.
> I took Goodfish for a test run, and the results pretty much speak for themselves. [...]
All I can say is that ClearType does an awesome job!
Looks like that in a ClearType-only world, we can almost* use any font...
*observe how Goodfish “jumps” up and down, in some of the sizes (8, 10, 15). Of course, that’s not ClearType’s fault.
20.Jun.2006 11.12am
Miguel,
Goodfish doesn’t get anywhere close to the other three fonts, but I was pretty impressed what ClearType was able to do considering the inputs. Yeah, it does jump a lot!
Since most free web fonts have bad hinting or no hinting at all they might find a great use on the web, for big headlines! :-)
21.Jun.2006 8.26am
Hakon picked Goodfish primarily because it’s EULA allows modification and because it’s embedding permissions are set to “installable” - this was to contrast against a font like Georgia.