Re: WOFF and extended metadata

Per the request for examples of type foundries creating WOFF files, here is
information from Ascender.

We are dynamically generating WOFF web font files and putting metadata into
our WOFF fonts: the 'uniqueid', 'vendor', 'license', and 'licensee' elements
as described in Appendix A of the WOFF specification
(http://www.w3.org/Submission/WOFF/).

The following is an example. Please note that the "Licensee Name" and
"UniqueID" are unique to each customer.

?<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<metadata version="1.0">
 <uniqueid id="037d0f6b-b5e3-b841-05afa509061b" />
 <vendor name="Ascender Corp" url="http://www.fontslive.com" />
 <license url="http://www.fontslive.com/info/web-fonts-eula.aspx"
id="ascender-webfonts-eula-v1">
 <text lang="en">This font software is the valuable property of Ascender
Corporation and/or its suppliers and its use by you is covered under the
terms of the Web Font license agreement between you and Ascender
Corporation. You may ONLY use this font software with the licensed web site.
Except as specifically permitted by the license, you may not copy this font
software. If you have any questions, please contact Ascender Corp.</text>
 </license>
 <licensee name="FontsLive.com" />
</metadata>

I hope this helps further the discussion.

All the best,

Bill Davis

Received on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:35:40 UTC