<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Vernon, <div><br></div><div>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. <div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>-----------------------<br>Garrick van Buren<br></div><div><a href="http://garrickvanburen.com">http://garrickvanburen.com</a><br>612 325 9110<br>-----------------------<br></div><br><br></span></div><br><br></span> </div> <br><div><div>On Oct 29, 2013, at 4:25 PM, vernon adams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I think you are right.<br>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.<br><br>-v<br><br><br>On 29 Oct 2013, at 12:23, Garrick van Buren <<a href="mailto:garrick@kernest.com">garrick@kernest.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">This is why Google Fonts is better than self hosting. Its likely<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">you've already cached the most popular Google Fonts.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sure, that's the argument for linking to any of Google-hosted resources (jQuery, etc). <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Personally, I feel this approach make the web more fragile, masks the approachability of HTML/CSS, and introduces privacy concerns. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>