[OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Jun 3 15:47:30 PDT 2013


On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:33:55PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 3 June 2013 15:27, Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric at chemoelectric.org> wrote:
> > My opinion on webfonts is that they are being embedded in a document
> > and so everything is A-OK. Nothing more is required.
> 
> I'm curious why you think this, given the reasons Victor gave for it
> not being the case in his document :)

You can embed a webfont as base64 encoded string inside the HTML file.
Even the common case of just linking to the file is not much different
from bundling the font in the zip container of ODT or DOCX.

Regards,
Khaled


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