Comments on: ❡ WOFF, the web standard for type

By: Azza

Azza — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:28:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing the info about WOFF file format. I will look into this a bit further now. Cheers.

By: Book guide

Book guide — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:22:15 +0000

Yeah great write up and info here.

By: boa noite

boa noite — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:32:16 +0000

Congratulations to demonstrate exactly why it is so difficult for web technologies to move forward – the critics are often ignorant of what is actually happening.

I doubt “graceful degradation” or “progressive improvement” ever crossed your feeble mind, but let me try * to explain.

The sources are divided into sans-serif and serif. Often, when a developer source code for a site, choose a font family as “Arial, sans-serif” which means that if someone does not have Arial, the default person sans-serif font is used.

Being the smart person you are, I’m sure you’ve removed all system fonts, but Arial and Times New Roman and take advantage of graceful degradation now.

By: maid

maid — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:04:37 +0000

I’m also really hoping to see a nice web standard that every browser can render without problems. With so many licensing issues out there, this seems like an all-encompassing format could be very difficult to implement.

By: bcp-221

bcp-221 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 07:37:53 +0000

Great post, very helpful, I have to say that if ones web site like this on of Target was so unhelpful to the client using it, why would this client come back, or even tell anyone else to use it. This can be very damaging to a business in the long run.

By: Martin Lapietra

Martin Lapietra — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:30:33 +0000

I need to say, there are some items about your smile that you simply will by no means have the ability to alter; you’ll be able to alter the colour of one’s design!

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:33:37 +0000

Ok so it seems the font squirrel generator will strip out the cruft for you. Nice. So i guess now i only need a place to buy fonts that have a web embedding license.

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:30:19 +0000

Does anyone know where you can buy WOFF / ttf / eot font packs ? I know there are services like typekit etc.. but they require javascript to be enabled which isn’t ideal ( @font-face works without javascript ) and offline uses / private intranets etc.. don’t work with those services.

Ideally what i’m looking for is a paid version of what font squirrel offers with their @font-face download option. I know it’s trivial to get the TTF files and make EOT/ WOFF files but I’m sure it’s against the license terms and even if it wasn’t you still get a whole bunch of stuff you don’t need for the web.

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:07:24 +0000

Karthik: Font Squirrel's generator will produce WOFF files. But besides file size, the real power and promise of the WOFF format is the licensing environment it affords type sellers. Converting from TTF to WOFF will not help us in this regard; we must wait for type sellers to sell us WOFF typefaces, and wait for browser support.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:54:26 +0000

Hello

Is there any tool to generate WOFF format from TTF?