- From: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:49:29 -0800
- To: Mikko Rantalainen <mikko.rantalainen@peda.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> 4) Even if free fonts tend to be a lot worse in some respects, it has > been admitted here that some high-quality professional fonts are > freely licensed (even if they weren't openly developed in the first > place). That number can only possibly increase, since fonts that are > freely licensed are not likely to be un-licensed (they can't be, if > free means as in speech). So any lack of font quality is likely to be > of limited duration anyway. The conclusion is not a logical consequence of the antecedents. There are literally several thousands of high-quality retail font families. Currently there are singles or at most a couple dozen high-quality free font families. The latter number could increase at a pretty healthy rate, and still not come close to the former number for a century or two. Or ever, if the growth rate of the former continues to be vastly higher. But I still consider this a side issue. Web designers want to be able to use retail fonts, and they want to be able to use most any font. Ergo, a solution which doesn't make font vendors happy won't make web designers happy either. Cheers, T
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