- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 23:28:04 +0200 (DST)
- To: Clive Bruton <Clive@typonaut.demon.co.uk>, Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, www-font@w3.org
On Aug 26, 8:55pm, Clive Bruton wrote: > >If you are alledging that major corporations never or rarely purchase their > >fonts, I hope you have some documentary proof. How then do the font foundries > >stay in business? > > Read what *I* wrote before replying. I said that they rarely pay for new type > design, not that they didn't license type which isn't the same thing. Maybe I just saw a biased sample. > My own experience from dealing with large companies is that they will licence > *some* of their fonts, not all. Mumping is endemic. > That is my point, the money generated from print and TV does not compare > to web > graphics, they may pay a consultant for an overview, but designers aren't in > there at every stage as with other media. Again, I have different experiences. The amount generated from Web is certainly less than TV, currently. > > ... this is somewhat different from a corporation using > >their corporate image fonts on their own website, such that they are only > >usable on that website. > > "Which are only usable on their website", and which embedding model in current > use does that? Who said anything about current use? We appeared to be talking about what will hapen when there is a font referencing technology for HTML documents and other online media. Fonts which are only usable from a particular website are an area of active investigation. Expect to see proposals for public comment in due course. > the model is clear, the Font > Face tag is the thin end of the wedge, people are already giving away cloned > fonts on their sites. There is currently no alternative model (aside from > Acrobat). Not currently, no. That is why there is activity to come up with an alternative. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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