![]() ![]() ![]() The page specifies the font needed with a Cascading Style Sheets(CSS)-based declaration. A browser, when it must render a page requiring the font, can download the font package, uncompress the font and use it to render the text. A font owner can package a font in a WOFF container and post it on the Web. WOFF is actually a compression technology. WOFF is an attempt to provide a platform for fonts that can be easily used by all browsers. Various initiatives, most confined to specific browsers, have tried to expand the palette of fonts, but have failed to take off, due the amount of work they required on the part of Web developers. This collection is but a small subset of the wide range of typefaces available for print media, though. (Typographically speaking, the term typeface refers to a stylistic rendition of each letter in an alphabet, whereas the font refers to the a specific rendering of these letters). Today, the vast majority of text rendered on the Web is rendered by browsers in a small number of typefaces, most provided to the Web by Microsoft, such as Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman. “And when designers come to the Web, they’re in shock when they find they can’t do that.” And there is a mechanism for that: They can get a font from a particular client, and use it on their computers,” Lilley said. ![]() “In print, publishers use lots and lots of fonts all the time. This format will provide a platform for open source and commercial providers of fonts to make their creations easily available across the Web, according to W3C fonts activity lead Chris Lilley. The World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Fonts Working Group has launched version 1.0 of the The Web Open File Format (WOFF). ![]() Now the standards body for the Web is hoping to bring online the rich variety of type styles long available to print. While Web publishing continues to challenge the printed page as the primary means of sharing text, in one aspect it still lags way behind Johannes Gutenberg’s 500 year old technology: Web developers have a relatively measly choice of fonts. ![]()
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