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Ummm cool, but if browsers support dlig, and the font does what it says why are all the graphs on the page pictures instead of ... demos?
by cchance 3y ago
Ummm cool, but if browsers support dlig, and the font does what it says why are all the graphs on the page pictures instead of ... demos?
- chuckadams 3y agoIt's a commercial font, they don't want to make it so anyone can trivially grab it for free. Yes, you could find a site that actually uses the font for real, but it's much less obvious, so it still deters casual copying. You'd think they could at least show a few demos with a cut-down build, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- blackoil 3y agoHmm, maybe a demo font with watermark.
- ryanwhitney 3y agoLol, I haven’t seen that tried. One nice strategy these days is having downloadable trial fonts with limited character sets. Get to use it locally as much as you want, until you need a quotation mark or a dash, etc. Works great IMO—wish all foundries did so!
- jackson1442 3y agoI've also seen them flip certain symbols so you still get to experience the full font but it's still fundamentally "broken," for example the slashes might be flipped.
- jiveturkey 3y agoThat might be a feature ... http colon backslash backslash
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- simple10 3y agoThat was my immediate first question as well when visiting their site. "Where are the web fonts examples?" The PDF manual has the font embedded and it appears to render well. This is super cool! But I'm a bit stumped on the use case and intended audience.