Web FontFonts
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- jimbojones0
as fun as it is, the plan sounds like "there will be enough idiots who will buy it, so why not"
1. most fonts are not worth it, the hinting is utter crap, FF DIN looks like fucking Arial under 16px2. the format is a joke, doesn't work in most browsers and you can only use it for web, I mean wtf
if only it had an advantage over the simple raw TTF (if you want to whine about hinting) but it is just a measure to keep it off the print use. you can compress TTF just as much as an EOT and still use it for print, but that wouldn't be a ripoff then.3. bad (well not mine at least) choices for the features that are left in the fonts, like OSF etc.
if I were a font house which praises itself to be so very innovative and whatnot, I would give the customer with one purchase the following: the super duper OTF (not the Pro mind you, although in this day and age it is laughable to call cyrillic and greek support a pro feature) the TTF, the PS and the EOT/WOFF/whatever web crap they will come up next. Maybe it will make the price go higher, but at least I won't have that feeling that someone wants to fuck me over and over again. I understand that it's a lot of work to rehint the existing fonts for web (and as of now it's been not too successful) but if the upcoming fonts will be splitted too, I'll never buy another FF font.
- yeah, it seems like an expensive band-aid fix until technology solves this one down the line.airey