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Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 26-isn't-enough dept.

simpl3x writes "of the nytimes articles posted today, this one about new, open fonts designed for the web was by far the most interesting. Here is a link to the project site, and here is a reason why it is necessary. For all the talk of the world wide part, the basics are still very local, aren't they? It will be interesting to see how one chooses a character on a keyboard!"

5 of 179 comments (clear)

  1. First post. by SpiderJ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry Folks. Hadda. Never got it before. *shrugs*

  2. pirst FOST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am teh clevor

  3. Has the NYTimes site been extra slow lately? by burgburgburg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It seems like for the last 3 days or so, the NYTimes site has been phenomenally slow (all the time, not just when being /.'d). I can't count how many timeouts I've suffered when trying to access them.

  4. My GNU/Linux looks good. by ruckc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Without them. LFS all the way baby. GTK2, X4.2.1, XFT, all the bonuses.

  5. This is a solved problem. by Dunedain · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The STIX fonts look like an interesting idea, but I don't see from the article while they're truly necessary. The Computer Modern fonts used by TeX, the standard for mathematical typesetting, work just fine.

    In addition, the article claims incorrectly that PDFs cannot easily include hyperlinks. I believe the authors of the hyperref package would be fascinated to know this their package allows easy embedding of hyperlinks and anchors into PDF files, such that the links work perfectly in Acrobat, xpdf, and other viewers.

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