Re: My solution of webfonts problem

On Apr 20, 2008, at 2:30 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:

> Maybe it is presumptuous though, assuming that fonts that share the
> same name look the same?
>
> We can see from any large font publisher catalog - say
> http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/A.html - that there are many fonts with
> generic names that are not restricted by trademarks. I speculate that
> the namespace of font names might be full of clashes. It might not
> though; perhaps someone from a font publisher could give an informed
> opinion :-)

That is a danger with or without @font-face. Presumably, if an author  
chooses to use @font-face with the same name as a well-known font or  
one that is installed in the system by default, they should be able to  
expect that to be a second choice if different from the web font.