David Baron writes an absorbing post about the future of downloadable font formats for the web. With current or near-release version of all major browsers supporting the W3C standards on Embedded OpenType (EOT) fonts, websites will no longer be limited to text in the Microsoft Core Fonts which the vast majority of users have on their computers. However, with the ability to reference fonts in style sheets comes some key questions about copyright and the concerns of the font foundries over how they control their distribution. Baron looks at the issues surrounding DRM, linking fonts to specific sites, or creating altogether new formats. It’s an interesting discussion, and one which I’m sure will become increasingly relevant and heavily debated as newer browsers are more widely adopted.

From David Baron’s blog, here. Via Matt Mullenweg’s blog, here.

Posted Monday, March 23rd, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
Filed in business and productivity, copyright and drm, science and tech

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