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  1. Most of the important foundries are supporting #webfont

    typegirl:

    It’s true. With this much weight behind the .webfont proposal (2.1), it has to should be taken seriously.

    The foundries listed below have expressed their support for the WebOTF proposal. The term “support” is understood to be general approval of the proposal and its intentions, not an exclusive commitment to it, or a formal endorsement of it.

    Update: Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, along with the help of Jonathan Kew (Mozilla), have written an updated proposal and re-christened the format, WebOTF. Read the new proposal. Until I hear back from all foundries, only those foundries in italic have stated their support of this new updated format.

    1. Adobe
    2. Alphabet Fonts
    3. Bold Monday
    4. Carter & Cone Type Inc.
    5. Chank Fonts
    6. Christian Schwartz / Commercial Type
    7. Emigre
    8. Erik Spiekermann, Founder of FontFont & FontShop
    9. Exljbris Font Foundry
    10. Feliciano Type Foundry
    11. FontFont
    12. Fonthead
    13. Fontsmith
    14. Fountain
    15. Gerard Unger
    16. Hoefler & Frere-Jones
    17. House Industries
    18. IHOF
    19. Incipit
    20. Incubator
    21. ITC Fonts
    22. Jeremy Tankard Typography
    23. John Downer
    24. KLTF
    25. Kombinat-Typefounders
    26. Kris Sowersby / Klim Type Foundry
    27. Lanston Type
    28. Letterror
    29. Linotype
    30. Mac Rhino Fonts
    31. Mark Simonson Studio
    32. Monotype
    33. Mota Italic
    34. Nicolas Massi
    35. Opto / Jean-Baptiste Levée
    36. Outras Fontes
    37. P22 Type Foundry
    38. Primetype
    39. Process Type Foundry
    40. Psy/Ops
    41. Rimmer Type Foundry
    42. Sherwood Type Col.
    43. Steve Mehallo
    44. Stone Type Foundry
    45. Sudtipos
    46. Thirstype
    47. Type Supply
    48. Typofonderie
    49. Typotheque
    50. Underware
    51. Village
    52. 1919 Type Foundry

    John Gruber supports it too. TypeKit also likes the idea of it.

    Based on what I understand, I am biased toward WebOTF. But I should mention there is another format, in addition to WebOTF, also garnering support for EOT Lite as another format being considered.

    [Note: This is an evolving post. As new foundries are known to support it I will add them.]

    Could momentum actually be building that would let us use fonts on the web? Real fonts, the kind we use everywhere else?

    4 months ago → permalink

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