The sad state of web fonts embedding

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The sad state of web fonts embedding [Armand Niculescu] Armand Niculescu chimes in on the state of web fonts in 2010. I quote: So for now, if you want wide cross-browser support, you must: find a free font whose license allows you to freely use it on the web; produce EOT, WOFF and SVG variants of it test it on all browsers on Windows with and without ClearType enabled and on Mac and hope it looks decent. This forces tedious definitions like @font-face { font-family: "Your typeface"; src: url("filename.eot"); src: local("Postscript name"), local("FontName"), url("filename.woff") format("woff"), url("filename.otf") format("opentype"), url("filename.svg#filename") format("svg"); }	EXTERNAL LINKS The sad state of web fonts embedding MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Web fonts ⦿

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