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Scalable-Font Tools?

Posted by Cliff on from the sansing-those-serifs dept.

DarkVein writes "My question is twofold. First, with the introduction of WebFonts from W3C, are there any projects underway to develop a real Web Font format, or are Type1 and Truetype thought to be sufficient? Secondly, I seem to be at a loss to find any decent and open font creation tools, especially ones capable of Unicode. The best I've found is GETO which seems to have been abandoned about a year and a half ago, without notice. I've had a long standing desire to get my feet wet designing one or two decent Unicode fonts, but most of the options seem to only be available for MacOS9, Win32 and require far higher prices."

3 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. Re:True Type by OSSMKitty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, TrueType fonts were developed by Apple; see this TrueType history for more information.

  2. What's the question again? by fm6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    with the introduction of WebFonts from W3C, are there any projects underway to develop a real Web Font format, or are Type1 and Truetype thought to be sufficient?
    As with so many Ask Slashdot questions, this one is frustratingly vague. What would the purpose of a web-specific font format be? You have to answer that question before you anybody can answer yours. If your answer is, "I don't know" then you've answered your own question.
    1. Re:What's the question again? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I don't know what the original poster's wants are, but a spec that made custom fonts both legal and EFFICIENT to embed would be very, very nice!!!