Downsides of Web Fonts?
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A foundry-agnostic service would rely on foundries wanting to embrace the @font-face specification. For example, here's what H&F-J have to say on the subject, on their website:
'H&FJ is carefully following the development of browsers that support the @font-face tag within Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and enthusiastically supports the emergence of a more expressive web in which designers can safely and reliably use high-quality fonts online. At this time, however, the delivery of fonts via @font-face constitutes the illegal distribution of our font software, and we therefore do not permit our fonts to be used in this way. The hosting of our font software by any server or other computational architecture capable of delivering web pages, or data used to render web pages, either in whole or in part, is expressly prohibited under our End-User License Agreement.'
In other words, one of the more established and successful foundries doesn't want to play ball. It wouldn't surprise me if the likes of Emigre, Lineto, P22 and so on don't want to play either.
- Yeah, it seems like a lot of type companies don't want to be on the web at all. Which translates to = why get their fonts?boobs