Andrei to Warnock: Please, give us web designers some frickin' fonts!
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added 2006 Tue Aug 29 7:00:00 by jcroft
Andrei Herasimchuk write an open letter to Adobe's John Warnock asking for a solution to the dismal state of typography on the web today. A large part of the problem is that we have such few quality typefaces to choose from online. Andrei asks Adobe to release a core set of fonts into the public domain. This would be a great short-term solution and I'm all for it, but I still think in the long run we're going to need a way to embed typefaces. Adobe has already solved this problem with both PDF and Flash, so it seems like they ought to be able to figure it out for HTML and CSS, too -- but do they want to?
Andrei Herasimchuk write an open letter to Adobe's John Warnock asking for a solution to the dismal state of typography on the web today. A large part of the problem is that we have such few quality typefaces to choose from online. Andrei asks Adobe to release a core set of fonts into the public domain. This would be a great short-term solution and I'm all for it, but I still think in the long run we're going to need a way to embed typefaces. Adobe has already solved this problem with both PDF and Flash, so it seems like they ought to be able to figure it out for HTML and CSS, too -- but do they want to?
