Fonts on web pages?
If you're a web page builder, you know the problems surrounding the use of custom fonts on web pages. Here's some news we're all keenly interested in. According to Alex Walker, editor of SitePoint's "Design" newsletter, the old web site fonts nightmare may be a thing of the past.
In the 1990s, W3C instituted the power to embed fonts in your web page using the font-face rule [?]. However the browser powers that be just couldn't come to grips with it and alas didn't implement.
See: Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification, and Mike Davidson's sIFR 2.0: Rich Accessible Typography for the Masses
In Hakon Wium Lie's blog posting "CSS Ten: The Next Big Thing" he writes:
It's a pleasure for me to announce that web fonts are back! Here are some recently generated examples that show how a familiar document can be rendered when TrueType web fonts are available
... and shows these examples:
Picture: CSS Zen Garden
Picture: CSS Zen Garden 2
Lie talks about a new product, and demonstrates PrinceXML new technology from YesLogic that uses @font-face.
Now, Apple has rolled out its latest Webkit rendering engine... According to Apple:
WebKit now supports CSS @font-face rules. With font face rules you can specify downloadable custom fonts on your Web pages or alias one font to another.
... also referencing the List Apart article. So, even though it's not widely supported, perhaps Apple's Safari can lead the way.
Read the full story at Alex Walker's "Web Design" newsletter
Speaking of Apple and fonts
Apple's new Leopard features some new font tricks including a Printable Font Book; Font Auto-Activation; Braille Support (with VoiceOver and Apple Braille Regular, Apple Braille Outline, and Apple Braille Pinpoint fonts.); Language Collection; System Font Protection; and a bevy of new fonts such as Arial Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Tahoma, Papyrus Condensed, and Wingdings.
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