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Web fonts seem like such a boondoggle to me. "Solutions" like SIFR are just not an area I've had the time to explore. How complicated is this new Ubuntu thing?
by euroclydon 16y ago
Web fonts seem like such a boondoggle to me. "Solutions" like SIFR are just not an area I've had the time to explore.
How complicated is this new Ubuntu thing? I went to the webpage, and the font examples are AN IMAGE, I can't even select them! How are they "brought to the web?"
- karanbhangui 16y agoThis uses CSS3's @font-face attribute, just like everything else in the Google Font Directory: http://code.google.com/webfonts http://code.google.com/webfonts
- sp332 16y agoThis is pretty close to a real solution, much better than SIFR. This lets you specify a remote font file, which the browser will download and apply to the text. This means the text shows up as text and not as a picture or Flash embed. It also means that if the font file is not available for some reason, the browser will fall back to something reasonable. The Google Font Directory is a library of freely-licensed fonts that you can link from your own web pages. When you click a font name here, it will take you to a demo page so you can see how well it works. http://code.google.com/webfonts http://code.google.com/webfonts
- ugh 16y agoOr, more accurately, this is the solution, very different from sIFR or image replacement. It’s how every sane person would expect webfonts to work (plus a few weird quirks you have to know about). It’s relatively simple to do on your own and solutions like Google’s Font Directory or Typekit make it even easier.