[OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

[vernon adams]

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.

-v


On 29 Oct 2013, at 12:23, Garrick van Buren <garrick at kernest.com> wrote:

> On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>> 
>> This is why Google Fonts is better than self hosting. Its likely
>> you've already cached the most popular Google Fonts.
> 
> 
> Sure, that's the argument for linking to any of Google-hosted resources (jQuery, etc). 
> 
> Personally, I feel this approach make the web more fragile, masks the approachability of HTML/CSS, and introduces privacy concerns. 
>