- From: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
- Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:05:44 +0100
- To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Hi, Thomas Phinney wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Thomas > Phinney<tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > I left out the corollary: if they are correct in their assessment, > then the creation of new, professionally designed typefaces could dry > up a few years after this transition to raw TTF/OTF on web sites Although some font software vendors, aka foundries, are already * licensing existing TTF/OTF fonts for use on the web, and/or * making systems that allow this to be done with minimal risk of loss of income and maximal opportunity to make money. So surely they intend to protect their revenue stream, keep on creating new, professionally designed typefaces, and move with the times? I hope that implies that I feel it's a bad thing to remove OTF/TTF support in a new spec, whatever might come along to open up the field. Having OTF/TTF is such an obviously straightforward and useful facility. For those of us involved in creating and using openly licensed fonts it's a no-brainer. Especially for the 'minority' scripts that have been mentioned once or twice on this list in the last few days. I feel sorry for MS being so intransigent on this particular point, but then everyone in the discussion has their sacred cow. You just saw one of mine. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Weiner | http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html
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