Now ask any web developer/designer, if you are one ask youself. Typefaces in the world of the web are some of the most unappreciated parts of websites on the internet today.
In the name of compatibility, you are limited to the small number of websafe fonts.
Arial
Tahoma
Helvetica
Trebuchet MS
Times New Roman
Sans-Serif
and the bastard retard child that is Comic Sans MS
Now embedded fonts have been hanging around on the sidelines for a while, in one of the few things that Internet Explorer has done right, it has actually supported font embedidng through CSS since [I]IE 4.4[/I] crazy no?
Yet finally in January Chrome pulled it's thumb out of it's ass and started supporting Embedded fonts by default. Meaning that all the big browsers now support it. As a system, they are beautiful. It fits right into the font-family style so if you are on a browser that still doesn't support font embedding, it will just roll back onto the next font as usual so you can still stick in all the web safe fonts to keep yourself comfortable.
So this system degrades neatly, it thoroughly simple to apply, and has the ability to completely change the look and feel of web pages. So why is no one taking it up? [I]Why aren't designers scrambling over each other to start getting this in their work and having sites that stand out from the crowd?[/I]
I really don't know, If you're a developer what's stopping you? This is not a rhetorical question, I am sure some people have some good reasons and I am convinced that maybe I'm missing a really solid reason why the web isn't ready for embedded fonts.
I actually use a custom font on my first PHP site, but IE sucks as and still doesn't view it correctly..
I don't think all of the browsers support font-family yet. If they do, well I've been wasting my time using Cufon.
ripping fonts from typekit owns.
Thanks, I'm gonna research it and get started.
[QUOTE][I]Why aren't designers scrambling over each other to start getting this in their work and having sites that stand out from the crowd?[/I][/QUOTE]
Because most of the browser market is in older browsers that don't even fully support css2 -_-.
[QUOTE=Cluckyx;21292708]Now embedded fonts have been hanging around on the sidelines for a while, in one of the few things that Internet Explorer has done right, it has actually supported font embedidng through CSS since [I]IE 4.4[/I] crazy no?[/QUOTE]
They just had to be in .eot format. Which nobody ever uses and most have never heard of.
[QUOTE=tobias104;21302568]They just had to be in .eot format. Which nobody ever uses and most have never heard of.[/QUOTE]
I hadn't until I went googling for how to embed fonts into websites. :v:
Speaking of which, are there more ways than the ptf (or whatever it was) and eot, or is that it? All I saw them for was IE and Netscape (both of which are horrid imo).
[QUOTE=tobias104;21302568]They just had to be in .eot format. Which nobody ever uses and most have never heard of.[/QUOTE]
That's true, but what I meant for in t hat the support or the theory of embedded fonts was there. Hell, correct me if I'm wrong, but the syntax is the same then as it is now.
Personally I use Cufón when I need other font's for online use. Really easy to use, and very fast in my experiences.
