Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

2013-10-29 Thread Garrick van Buren
es an unnecessary level of complexity across the entire design/development/deployment process. This is why I see libre fonts as the only opportunity for sustained growth and innovation for typography. Everything else restricts in too many unintended ways. --- Garrick van Buren

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

2013-10-29 Thread Garrick van Buren
onally, I feel this approach make the web more fragile, masks the approachability of HTML/CSS, and introduces privacy concerns. ----------- Garrick van Buren http://garrickvanburen.com 612 325 9110 ---

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

2013-10-29 Thread Garrick van Buren
, cache headers can eliminate this issue for subsequent loads - assuming your site is someplace people will visit repeatedly within the cache lifetime. --- Garrick van Buren http://garrickvanburen.com 612 325 9110 --- On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:59 PM, vernon

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

2013-10-29 Thread Garrick van Buren
use: @font-face { font-family: 'Allan'; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; src: url('fonts/allan/Allan.eot?#') format('eot'), url('fonts/allan/Allan.ttf') format('truetype'); } Is this helpful?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-03 Thread Garrick van Buren
ssful OFLB. ------- Garrick van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com eBooks. Typography. Together. --- On Dec 3, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > I like the idea, but Drupal has a huge developer community

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] The future of OFLB development

2012-12-03 Thread Garrick van Buren
ki/US_Nationals_2012,_Finals,_Knockerheads_v._Kubbsicles,_July_15_(Game_2) ----------- Garrick van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com eBooks. Typography. Together. --- On Dec 3, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote:

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] [Blueprint font-face-generator] The library must automatically generate @font-face files for uploaded fonts

2011-03-21 Thread Garrick Van Buren
amp; a gzipped ttf served w/ mod_deflate is negligible. With the current support for ttf being greater than woff - I find ttfs easier all the way around. ------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native fonts. ---

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-23 Thread Garrick Van Buren
ive/google-offering-droid-for-font-face-use Is this helpful? ------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native fonts. --- On May 23, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Sun,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-20 Thread Garrick Van Buren
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/ It's a Mercurial repo. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native fonts. --- On May 20, 2010, at 6:

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Garrick Van Buren
No. I think it's a bugger as well. --- Garrick On May 19, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On 5/19/10, Garrick Van Buren wrote: > >> This is fantastic - a huge win for the OFL. Great work. > > Am I the only person who thinks that h

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Garrick Van Buren
WOFF helps a little, as does just plain gzipping the font. I'd rather see better support for unicode-range subsetting that the @font-face spec describes. -- Garrick. On May 19, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 19 May 2010 22:23, Garrick Van Buren wrote: >> I

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Garrick Van Buren
On May 19, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 19 May 2010 22:09, Garrick Van Buren wrote: >> On May 19, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: >> >>> FOUT? >> >> Yes, that's what I've heard the major benefit is. >> I don't see

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Garrick Van Buren
On May 19, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > FOUT? Yes, that's what I've heard the major benefit is. I don't see it as significant an issue to warrant getting Javascript involved. -- Garrick.

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Garrick Van Buren
arrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native fonts. --- On May 19, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: > Garrick Van Buren wrote: >> Nicolas, >> >> This is fantastic - a h

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

2010-05-19 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Nicolas, This is fantastic - a huge win for the OFL. Great work. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native fonts. --- On May 19, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

2010-05-08 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Nicolas, The short answer is - I like them and they're consistent with the direction Kernest is pointing. Just need to work out the specifics. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Windows 5k Name table restriction

2010-05-08 Thread Garrick Van Buren
kward proposition. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscription, and Web Native fonts. --- On May 8, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978909/

[OpenFontLibrary] Kernest’s Web Font Serving E ngine – Fontue – Now Open Source

2010-04-20 Thread Garrick Van Buren
I've open-sourced Kernest's underlying font serving engine. Info here: http://blog.kernest.com/archive/kernests-web-font-serving-engine-fontue-now-open-source ------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free, Subscri

[OpenFontLibrary] FontConf - the unconference on @font-face and web fonts.

2010-03-10 Thread Garrick Van Buren
ntconf.com Thanks. ----------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free and Commercial Web Fonts --- On Mar 10, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:00:57PM -0600, Barry Schwartz wrote: >> Khaled Hosny s

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Fon

2010-03-06 Thread Garrick Van Buren
ake money on support costs and lock your customers into your services - then I agree. To me, that's an irresponsible business practice. ----------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free and Commercial Web Fonts

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Garrick Van Buren
y openly licensing Georgia - they've already paid for it. :) Similarly, as long as my invoices are paid - I don't care how my clients license the work I do for them. 1. http://www.firstcrackpodcast.com/archive/first-crack-125 Is this helpful? ----------- Garrick Van Buren 612

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Garrick Van Buren
pment moving forward. ----------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free and Commercial Web Fonts ---

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Pc.de New Fonts

2010-02-26 Thread Garrick Van Buren
E fonts should be removed from the OFLB. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free and Commercial Web Fonts --- On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Kess Vargavind wrote: > Just noticed the “Pc.de New Fon

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Pc.de New Fonts

2010-02-26 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Sergiy's has provided some of his fonts for use via Kernest.com (http://4thfebruary.kernest.com/fonts). So I sent him a message to Sergiy asking him for clarification on the status of PC.DE. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernes

[OpenFontLibrary] My Podcast w/ David Crossland on Open Font Licensing now available

2010-01-15 Thread Garrick Van Buren
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Re: [OpenFontLibrary] PT Sans

2009-12-27 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Andrey, thanks for the pointer. It's a gorgeous face. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Free and Commercial Web Fonts --- On Dec 27, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Andrey V. Panov wrote: > ParaType type

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] TypeKit screenshot

2009-07-17 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Chris - thanks, that is a little different from the UA strings I was seeing for Midori. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Bringing Web Fonts Closer --- On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Chris Hills

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] TypeKit screenshot

2009-07-17 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Chris, Fantastic - thank you. I updated Kernest.com to recognize Arora & Midori. I was able to confirm on Arora, can you confirm on Midori? Thanks. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Bringing Web Fonts Cl

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] TypeKit screenshot

2009-07-17 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Thanks. David, I've downloaded the podcast and will give it a listen on my way to TypeCon tomorrow morning to see if I've missed anything :D ------- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Bringing Web Fonts Closer ---

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] TypeKit screenshot

2009-07-17 Thread Garrick Van Buren
David thanks for sharing the flickr url. related: I opened the doors to http://kernest.com yesterday, a similar service I've been working on. --- Garrick Van Buren 612 325 9110 garr...@kernest.com --- Kernest.com Bringing Web Fonts C