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Font Foundries Opening Up To the Web

Posted by timothy on from the but-what-about-printing dept.

Tiger4 writes "A huge number of fonts are migrating from the print-only world to the Web. As the browser manufacturers get on board, the WWW will be a much more interesting place (see the article illustration). 'Beginning Tuesday, Monotype Imaging, a Massachusetts company that owns one of the largest collections of typefaces in the world, is making 2,000 of its fonts available to Web designers. The move follows that of San Francisco-based FontShop, which put several hundred of its fonts online in February. In just a few weeks, Font Bureau, a Boston designer of fonts, will make some of its typefaces available online as well.' With any luck, the transition period to font-richness will be briefer and less painful than the waving-flag, jumping-smiley, flashing-text era HTML explosion."

6 of 209 comments (clear)

  1. More is good, but by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...we really just need one less.

  2. Oh great by LWATCDR · · Score: 4, Funny

    More websites that look like ransom notes.

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    1. Re:Oh great by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 2, Funny

      More websites that look like ransom notes.

      Dont you mean "conditional requests for donations"?

  3. Re:Seriously? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently at least one sans serif font.

  4. Coming soon... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    all font related articles on /. will use Papyrus.

  5. Took long enough by Intron · · Score: 3, Funny

    The font designers couldn't work with web technologies until recently. New AMD processors are finally hot enough to melt lead.

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