[OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

[Garrick van Buren]

Vernon, 

I think we're already there. Modern web servers do a great job of serving font files just as they do a great job of serving image files, javascript files, html files, and css files. From my perspective, treating one kind of web-delivered asset differently than others introduces an unnecessary level of complexity across the entire design/development/deployment process. This is why I see libre fonts as the only opportunity for sustained growth and innovation for typography. Everything else restricts in too many unintended ways. 

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Garrick van Buren
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On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:25 PM, vernon adams wrote:

> I think you are right.
> Imo the web would be much more robust and fertile if type was even more ‘democratised’ and ‘autonomous’. The big web companies would be much better served by a few big font servers amid swarms of small font servers. Repeating myself, i know, :) but if webfont servers could be as commonplace and as easy to use as all those zillions of Wordpress installations across the web… it would be awesome.
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> -v
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> On 29 Oct 2013, at 12:23, Garrick van Buren <garrick at kernest.com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
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>>> This is why Google Fonts is better than self hosting. Its likely
>>> you've already cached the most popular Google Fonts.
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>> Sure, that's the argument for linking to any of Google-hosted resources (jQuery, etc). 
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>> Personally, I feel this approach make the web more fragile, masks the approachability of HTML/CSS, and introduces privacy concerns. 
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