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Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting
On 5 Nov 2013, at 10:52, noo...@aol.com wrote:
HAHAHA! Who iz Bruno Maag?
He runs a well known type design agency. He’s a loud critic of Free fonts. But
don’t get the wrong idea, i like him and admire the work he his agency does
On 5 Nov 2013, at 10:52, noo...@aol.com wrote:
HAHAHA! Who iz Bruno Maag?
He runs a well known type design agency. He’s a loud critic of Free fonts. But
don’t get the wrong idea, i like him and admire the work he his agency does.
Just thought it would make a good specimen for JRUG_PUNK.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:09 PM, vernon adams wrote:
HAHAHA! Who iz Bruno Maag?
He runs a well known type design agency. He’s a loud critic of Free fonts.
Just to feed my curiosity... How does one design free fonts and then
criticize free fonts? Any URLs to share?
Alexandre
The criticism is usually based on around 2 things;
‘quality' and ‘money’.
The argument allways goes along the lines of; ‘all these free fonts are
lowering type design standards’, and, ‘all these free fonts are reducing the
traditional economic value of fonts’. I’m sure there’s some videos or 2
Thanks! The fonts are free for use by everybody, including commercial use.
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Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting
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From: Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com
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Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting
On 30 October 2013 17:35, noo...@aol.com wrote:
I coudnt get the webfont thing to work, so just went with gif
On 1 November 2013 18:24, noo...@aol.com wrote:
Turnz out pretty good doing it this way
Sick
My specimen references some famous Gilbert George art pieces.
It’s good to see people making fonts like this. Type should be made from these
sort of marks too. I see them as liberational, and equally as beautiful as the
marks on the Trajan column.
Seriously.
-v
On 1 Nov 2013, at 18:28, Dave
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From: Garrick van Buren garr...@kernest.com
To: Open Font Library openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org
Sent: Tue, Oct 29, 2013 7:50 pm
Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting
Quinn - what do you mean by so I don't have to use @font-face?
Vernon - thanks for calling
On 30 October 2013 17:35, noo...@aol.com wrote:
I coudnt get the webfont thing to work, so just went with gif and jpg piks
uv the text. Kind uv a hassle, but it ensurez that everybody will see it
correctly. If youre worried that the pik text iz not searchable, just put
the text in a mouse
Quinn - what do you mean by so I don't have to use @font-face?
Vernon - thanks for calling out the Fontue project. I stopped developing it for
2 reasons:
- browser support stabilized to the point where TFF EOT provide
sufficient coverage
- my opinion that @font-face works
Hi Quinn!
On 29 October 2013 13:05, Quinn Keaveney qke...@gmail.com wrote:
By saying I don't want to use @ff I just mean that I want to use an @ff that
obfuscates the link/src file so you can not just click and download the
woff.
This is impossible. You may find
I’m not sure Quinn is after what you think he is :)
Quinn… do you mean you want to serve fonts like the example i am serving from
http://newtypography.net/testing/ ?
A.k.a you want your fonts to be served to remote web pages by simply adding a
'link href’ line to the head of the source html
Something to note: From a performance perspective, most lag is caused by
setting up the HTTP connection. Essentially, anything other than
Apache/Nginx/etc serving a static file (just like js/jpg/png/etc) on the same
files system as the webpage itself will degrade delivery performance. Yes,
On 29 October 2013 14:11, Garrick van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote:
Yes, cache headers can eliminate this issue for subsequent loads - assuming
your site is someplace people will visit repeatedly within the cache
lifetime.
This is why Google Fonts is better than self hosting. Its likely
I think we could assume that someone self hosting a handfull of fonts isn’t
likely to be pushing to billions of font calls, per font, every week.
Though it would be interesting to run an experiment and see what figures are
possible :)
On 29 Oct 2013, at 11:19, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com
Vernon,
I think we're already there. Modern web servers do a great job of serving font
files just as they do a great job of serving image files, javascript files,
html files, and css files. From my perspective, treating one kind of
web-delivered asset differently than others introduces an
Sure, i think we are nearly already there. When i say ‘webfont server’ i just
mean anything (e.g. just a bit of php) that allows a user in one part of the
word to create a webpage that pulls a font from another part of the world,
without the need for too much css coding. I don’t see any reason
On 29 October 2013 17:58, Garrick van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote:
treating one kind of web-delivered asset differently than others introduces
an unnecessary level of complexity
Serving fonts isn't as simple as your CSS though; its useful to have a
web font serve that parses the UA string
Hi Quinn!
I keep wanting to find this out too. IMO it’s the missing key to a typographic
revolution :)
You might want to look at https://github.com/garrickvanburen/Fontue
It is a few years old now.
Have you searched on github for ‘font server’ and ‘webfont server’ ??
Brings up a few
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