Re: SVG Fonts [...]

2010/6/3 Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>

> I think, these are pretty different use cases, to provide a font
> for reading a larger amount of text or to provide some specific glyphs
> within
> the same document for reasons like corporate design, advertisement,
> design etc.
>

For the latter use-case, why not just insert the graphic inline or use <use>
to include the graphic? If you want the text available for searching or
accessibility, it'd be trivial to extend SVG so you can associate Unicode
text with particular graphic objects. Something like
<g>
  <textContent>Mozilla</textContent>
  ... Mozilla wordmark here ...
</g>
That's far easier to implement than full SVG 1.1 Fonts. In fact, viewers
need not implement anything at all. It's more flexible since you can include
absolutely anything in the graphic content. It's probably also easier to
author in most cases; the author just designs the graphic in-place, and then
annotates it with the underlying text. With SVG Fonts the author has to
design the graphic, then break it up into individual glyphs and move them
out into a font.

IMHO a "font" only makes sense if you're going to combine character glyphs
in more than one way. Otherwise it's just an inconvenient way to reference
images.

Rob
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