[OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

[Garrick van Buren]

Quinn - what do you mean by "so I don't have to use @font-face"? 


Vernon - thanks for calling out the Fontue project. I stopped developing it for 2 reasons:

	- browser support stabilized to the point where TFF & EOT provide sufficient coverage

	- my opinion that @font-face works best when the font files are local to the project - rather than on a hosted service. In my experience w/ running Kernest - there are very few scenarios where a hosted web font service is superior to self-hosted.

Here's the @font-face declaration I normally use:
	@font-face { 
	 font-family: 'Allan'; 
 	 font-style: normal; 
	 font-weight: normal; 
	 src: url('fonts/allan/Allan.eot?#') format('eot'), url('fonts/allan/Allan.ttf') format('truetype'); 
	}



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Garrick van Buren
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On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:49 PM, vernon adams wrote:

> Hi Quinn!
> 
> I keep wanting to find this out too. IMO it’s the missing key to a typographic revolution :)
> 
> You might want to look at https://github.com/garrickvanburen/Fontue
> 
> It is a few years old now.
> 
> Have you searched on github for ‘font server’ and ‘webfont server’ ??
> 
> Brings up a few potentially interesting projects.
> 
> I would be very interested to hook up on anything you find and help however i can to get something up and running.
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 Oct 2013, at 21:19, Quinn Keaveney <qkeave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Dave,
>> I was wondering if you could help/point me towards how to set up a self hosting service so that I don't have to use @font-face. Has google fonts looked into this? Do you know how to do this? I can't seem to find any tutorials.
>> 
>> - ℚ
>> 
>> mail. qkeave at gmail.com
>> tel. 312.623.3017
>> web. quinnkeaveney.com
>> b[log]. l3tt3r.com
>> twitter. quinn_chirps
>