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Fonts cost money to license. http://www.linotype.com/1308886/Helvetica-family.html?numLicenses=200&licenseAvlType=1 http://www.linotype.com/1308886/Helvetica-fa

Fonts cost money to license. http://www.linotype.com/1308886/Helvetica-family.html?numLicenses=200&licenseAvlType=1 http://www.linotype.com/1308886/Helvetica-family.html?numLic... Also, it's not in the spirit of the web to package content natively with the browser, because then only certain clients are able to understand the content correctly. The thought is to make everyone able to see exactly the same thing, with nothing stored on a local machine.

unethical_ban 11y ago
*Some fonts.
mapt 11y ago
It may not be in the spirit of the web, but the current state of things is a failure. Less of a failure than 10 years ago, but still a failure. Packaging the most popular / representative, say, 256 free & open fonts together and distributing them with Firefox and Chrome would be a useful thing for designers of everything on the web other than fonts.
- vacri 11y ago
  A gzipped truetype font is in the order of 100k, though plenty are bigger. 256 of these is ~25MB. Chrome and Firefox are only 45MB to begin with.
kzrdude 11y ago
It's supposed to be a decentralized network. Blocking all non-google or non-typekit webfonts is an example of breaking that vision for the web, which is a shame. I think the better solution is more browser security work and transparent & common limits on computation time and download size that browsers will do the accounting for and enforce.