We finally have the ability to serve custom fonts to all popular browsers. However, like everything in our profession, there’s a minefield of gotchas and peculiarities between browsers, devices and ...
We finally have the ability to serve custom fonts to all popular browsers. However, like everything in our profession, there’s a minefield of gotchas and peculiarities between browsers, devices and operating systems.
This presentation (probably meaningless without audio) investigates the browser flaws, optimisations & legal pitfalls in serving webfonts.
John Boardley, xxxxxxx at xxxxxxxxxI’ve only seen the slides, but I think (besides Arial), you’ve done a fantastic job of bringing a pretty technical and dull subject to life. Great stuff!1 year ago
Chris MillsThis was my talk of the day at DiBi too - impeccably well tested/researched, and full of really good info. I know a fair bit about web fonts, but I learned a lot, even about my own browser's implementation ;-)
If that is an informational wank to the face, then I'll have 5 more. And a tissue.
Also, you should wear it as a badge of honour of someone got offended and walked out!1 year ago
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Jake Archibald, Web Developer at lanyrd@Tim Ahrens: I’m purely technical, not a designer, hence the poor design/font choice in my slides. It’s not a new deck design, it’s one I’ve used before.
I don’t credit Håkon with the creation of WOFF in my talk, I credit it to Mozilla, Opera & Microsoft. I don’t have all the info in the slides, I just use them to assist the talky bits. There’ll be a video of the talk at some point, I’ll link it when it’s up.
Agree re kerning, I wanted to talk about which browsers use kerning & in which situations (also ligatures) but didn’t have the time.
I wasn’t aware of the cleartype issue, many thanks, I’ll try to create a test case for that and include it in future runs of the talk. Do you have an example to hand?
Will also look into recomponentizing (is that a word?) TTFs, cheers!1 year ago
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sanchothefatMy favourite talk of the day this was. It was certainly no wank to the face.1 year ago
• Why are you using Arial? Seems a bit strange for a presentation on how to extend the choice of fonts beyond Arial.
• Was Håkon Wium Lie really the original inventor of WOFF? I thought it was Erik van Blokland and Tal Leming
• One very effective way of optimizing TTFs that was not mentioned is to recomponentize them.
• Another very effective way of reduceing the font file size is to strip kerning for scenarios where it will be ignored.
• TTFs not needing hinting even for large sizes is a common misconception. With ClearType, unhinted TTFs will show unpleasant 'warts' in all sizes.1 year ago
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Jake Archibald, Web Developer at lanyrdFirst talk I've done that someone walked out of due to offence. Don't know if that's something to be proud of, but I'm running with that as a tagline.1 year ago
Alejandro Pérez
If that is an informational wank to the face, then I'll have 5 more. And a tissue.
Also, you should wear it as a badge of honour of someone got offended and walked out! 1 year ago
I don’t credit Håkon with the creation of WOFF in my talk, I credit it to Mozilla, Opera & Microsoft. I don’t have all the info in the slides, I just use them to assist the talky bits. There’ll be a video of the talk at some point, I’ll link it when it’s up.
Agree re kerning, I wanted to talk about which browsers use kerning & in which situations (also ligatures) but didn’t have the time.
I wasn’t aware of the cleartype issue, many thanks, I’ll try to create a test case for that and include it in future runs of the talk. Do you have an example to hand?
Will also look into recomponentizing (is that a word?) TTFs, cheers! 1 year ago
A few comments:
• Why are you using Arial? Seems a bit strange for a presentation on how to extend the choice of fonts beyond Arial.
• Was Håkon Wium Lie really the original inventor of WOFF? I thought it was Erik van Blokland and Tal Leming
• One very effective way of optimizing TTFs that was not mentioned is to recomponentize them.
• Another very effective way of reduceing the font file size is to strip kerning for scenarios where it will be ignored.
• TTFs not needing hinting even for large sizes is a common misconception. With ClearType, unhinted TTFs will show unpleasant 'warts' in all sizes. 1 year ago