[OpenFontLibrary] What's the big deal about @font-face anyway?

Simos Xenitellis simos.lists at googlemail.com
Fri May 29 09:35:28 PDT 2009


On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jeremy Dunck <jdunck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>> So, please tell me, how is
>> making it easier for website designers to enforce their type on me a good
>> thing?
>
> Right now, people use sIFR or image replacement.  This is hard for a
> viewer to change.  By moving to @font-face, the viewer can still win
> because they can have an !important user stylesheet.  I'd argue that
> @font-face ubiquity means the viewer haves more, not less, control.
>

Or cufón.

Simos


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