[OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting

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I coudnt get the webfont thing to work, so just went with gif and jpg piks uv the text. Kind uv a hassle, but it ensurez that everybody will see it correctly. If youre worried that the pik text iz not searchable, just put the text in a mouse over note or alt text for the imaj.



-----Original Message-----
From: Garrick van Buren <garrick at kernest.com>
To: Open Font Library <openfontlibrary at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Tue, Oct 29, 2013 7:50 pm
Subject: Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Setting up self hosting


Quinn - what do you mean by "so I don't have to use @font-face"? 


Vernon - thanks for calling out the Fontue project. I stopped developing it for 
2 reasons:

	- browser support stabilized to the point where TFF & EOT provide sufficient 
coverage

	- my opinion that @font-face works best when the font files are local to the 
project - rather than on a hosted service. In my experience w/ running Kernest - 
there are very few scenarios where a hosted web font service is superior to 
self-hosted.

Here's the @font-face declaration I normally use:
	@font-face { 
	 font-family: 'Allan'; 
 	 font-style: normal; 
	 font-weight: normal; 
	 src: url('fonts/allan/Allan.eot?#') format('eot'), url('fonts/allan/Allan.ttf') 
format('truetype'); 
	}



Is this helpful?

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Garrick van Buren
http://garrickvanburen.com
612 325 9110
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On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:49 PM, vernon adams wrote:

> Hi Quinn!
> 
> I keep wanting to find this out too. IMO it’s the missing key to a typographic 
revolution :)
> 
> You might want to look at https://github.com/garrickvanburen/Fontue
> 
> It is a few years old now.
> 
> Have you searched on github for ‘font server’ and ‘webfont server’ ??
> 
> Brings up a few potentially interesting projects.
> 
> I would be very interested to hook up on anything you find and help however i 
can to get something up and running.
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 Oct 2013, at 21:19, Quinn Keaveney <qkeave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Dave,
>> I was wondering if you could help/point me towards how to set up a self 
hosting service so that I don't have to use @font-face. Has google fonts looked 
into this? Do you know how to do this? I can't seem to find any tutorials.
>> 
>> - ℚ
>> 
>> mail. qkeave at gmail.com
>> tel. 312.623.3017
>> web. quinnkeaveney.com
>> b[log]. l3tt3r.com
>> twitter. quinn_chirps
> 


 
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