[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Tom Phinney on Libre Fonts

[Liam R E Quin]

On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 00:06 +0200, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 14 October 2013 23:17, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 02:23 -0400, nooalf at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> Another point: It seems to me that many decorative fonts will be used
> >> mostly just as titles, so any problems with the kerning or hinting
> >> could be easily corrected in Photoshop if its just a few words.
> >
> > The context was Google Web fonts, for use in text on Web pages, so I
> > don't think there's any scope for PhotoShop work; the fonts (and many of
> > them are billed as text fonts) will be used directly from the Google
> > server, with the kerning and spacing and hinting as supplied.
> 
> Most web font services offer a photoshop plugin so you can use their
> fonts (and the Google Fonts set) directly in Photoshop for comps, as
> marketing for the rael world usage on the web

True but not relevant :-) since you can't fix "problems with the kerning
or hinting" for the final Web production usage that way.

Anyway, it's a minor point, except that we all need to remember that
with Web fonts today the quality of the font on the server, including
font metrics, is what your client ends up seeing.

Best,

Liam


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