Typography On the Web Gets Different

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday July 16, 2009 @01:44AM from the but-i-miss-comic-sans dept.

bstender writes "Most major browsers — including the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera — recognize a CSS rule known as @font-face. What that means, in brief, is that Web developers can now easily embed downloadable fonts in their pages. To see an example, load up Firefox 3.5 or Safari 4 and learn more. You'll see three new typefaces — Liza, Auto, and Dolly — used in the body text and headlines." No doubt the licensing issues are just as complex as the font nerd potential.

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To disable @font-face in Firefox 3.5 by GeekDork · 2009-07-16 02:03 · Score: 5, Informative

In about:config, set gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled to false and restart the browser.

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Re:IE doesn't support font-face by Anonymous Coward · 2009-07-16 04:00 · Score: 5, Informative

I managed to get @font-face working for all browser supporting it, buy having both .ttf and .eot files and IE CSS conditional comment. Also, check ttf2eot for a tool that run on linux if you don't want to use MS's tool.