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Careful, you can't legally serve these fonts with your app, you can only link to them. Am I the only one who finds this a big deal? It means you can't control
by dgreensp 14y ago
Careful, you can't legally serve these fonts with your app, you can only link to them. Am I the only one who finds this a big deal? It means you can't control the uptime of your fonts, and it seems like it would complicate development when you're offline, too.
From a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to turn fonts into a "service" by hyping the hosting aspect. It would be like if jQuery said you can't serve jquery.js from your web server, you can only link to it, and then they start offering paid versions of jQuery.
I realize fonts are a commercial product, but my understanding is that Google Web Fonts really are free to use in your apps, whereas this is a free service. According to the terms, it is illegal to "retransmit" the "Service Materials".
- thangalin 14y agohttp://www.google.com/webfonts http://www.google.com/webfonts The website itself has hardly any frills.
- Silhouette 14y agoI'm not sure I understand where the fonts on that page are coming from. They don't seem to be the serious Adobe professional fonts, many of which are available from font-as-a-service providers at a cost. Rather, they seem to be a lot of familiar things people are already using via Google Web Fonts and other free sources: Arvo, PT Sans, League Gothic, etc. Some (all?) of these are available under quite open licences, so I'm not sure what right Adobe would have to restrict those anyway.
- dholowiski 14y agoChunk is a serious font, we just bought 30 licenses for a variant of it (chunk five) a few months ago.
- Meai 14y agoIt's free here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ChunkFive http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ChunkFive
- dholowiski 14y agoShit. Thanks.
- csomar 14y agoA bit curious: 30 variants of Chnuk 5 are not Chunk 5. Where did you buy it from?