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Hands in the air, anyone actually using @font-face in a commercial project
Posted by Frode Bo Helland in
22 Jan 2010 — 2:38am
22 Jan 2010 — 2:38am
There are two major drawbacks with @font-face at the current state, IMO: The subscription model (exception for Typotheque) and the unreliable browser rendering. Both makes me uneasy about using web fonts for anything but playing around.
Have any of you actually relied on @font-face in real life projects?
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22 Jan 2010 — 8:34am
FF Meta for Firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en/firefox/3.6/whatsnew/
The Typekit blog also lists featured sites with webfonts: http://blog.typekit.com/
22 Jan 2010 — 10:50am
There's beginning to be a nice collection of very usable open source and/or freely licensed stuff out there that makes the subscription issue less of an issue.
However, the lack of proper anti-aliasing (at least in Firefox) really turns me off still.
I wasn't aware that WOFF has come to FF, though. Good news!
22 Jan 2010 — 11:27am
Can I put my hand down now?
22 Jan 2010 — 12:33pm
Kernest displays thumbnails of the sites it's serving fonts to.
Just a reminder: @font-face use doesn't require a third party service, so the only way to know - is to check the site's CSS. Honestly I've been pleasantly surprised by the font stacks I've been seeing lately.
22 Jan 2010 — 12:42pm
I'm currently trying out a couple of weights of Fedra Sans Alt on my own site, as sort of a test. It seems that rendering quality on Windows is a real issue? I must admit I'm not really up to date with all the background; to be on the safe [but still somewhat progressive :-) ] side, I think I'll limit it to titling at the moment, and only in situations of course where fallback fonts are also OK, so that the @font-face becomes sort of a «bonus» for those people who can see it.
22 Jan 2010 — 7:32pm
"However, the lack of proper anti-aliasing (at least in Firefox) really turns me off still."
This is the OS, has very little to do with Firefox per se.
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