I am sure most of you have already heard of several types of font embedding. Some of them use java-script, flash or even generating images on the fly. None of these solutions is perfect but there is better way to do this.
You might not heard of this yet. Why? It is quite simple. If you come up with some solution and you do not have a “big name” it is not easy to promote your product. On the other hand you have probably heard about all the other solutions out there even they might not be as good as this.
Typefront provides nice and simple solution. You can upload your font file to TypeFront, it automatically gets converted into three different file formats for you – OpenType, Extended OpenType (EOT) and Web Open Font Format (WOFF). Including these three formats into your site CSS will ensure that your font is viewable on Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer versions all the way back to 6. This represents over 90% of the current browser market share. You need to specify the domain name for which your font will become available.
Now you must be asking why the title of the article says “legally”? Well, you might need to check the font licenses. You would not be able to specify the font in your css and host it on your shared server because anyone be able to have an access to that font which violates the license. (in most cases)
API for font producers
TypeFront provides API which allows font producers to sell individual fonts to specific domains rather then selling whole type families to individual users. I can see here big business opportunity for font producers to start playing major part in domain based business.
What do you think?
