- From: Erik van Blokland <evb@knoware.nl>
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 00:08:48 +0200
- To: "w3" <www-font@w3.org>
Liam Quin: >Consider the possibility of a `purchase this font' button in Netscape or >Microsoft Interenet Explorer -- it looks in the font for the URL of the >vendor & the foundry, and offers to connect you... ""PAY 5 DOLLARS AND SEE THIS AD THE WAY IT WAS INTENDED!"" Who would pay money to buy the Kodak font, or the CocaCola font? Advertising and corporate identity are two good reasons to develop better typographic tools for the web, but it is in the advertisers' and publishers' advantage to use particular fonts. The person viewing the webpage is largely indifferent. A company with a web presence might not even want to sell a font to a user. They just want to be able to let the font be used on the viewers' screen, not donate or sell it to him. Buying fonts this way might be an interesting way to sell fonts to individual computer jockeys, it is not really a method to solve the various problems of fonts on the web. Though this is somewhat tangential to the fontsecurity discussion, and does not invalidate Lee's other arguments. erik van blokland, LettError type & typography Home of the Randomfonts, Trixie, BitPull & GifWrap. letterror http://www.letterror.com typelab http://www.dol.com/TypeLab/
Received on Friday, 23 August 1996 18:07:45 UTC