Sunday, November 23, 2008

Gentium & Bitstream Vera

Through CSS @font-face Firefox 3.5 adds the ability to download a TrueType font from the webserver. All web designers shall henceforth therefore incorporate all redistributable fonts into their library! :-)

Unfortunately, very few creators of fonts have been so generous to license their intellectual property as open source; blessed are Gentium and Bitstream Vera.

Giving preference and favor to using fonts in web design which are free for redistribution through the @font-face means can lighten the download weight of a webpage, and bring increased flexibility, by enabling your CSS/HTML builder to put copy directly in the HTML instead of only in raster image formats.

Some reader applications on your desktop (like Mozilla Thunderbird) can automatically pull news from an feed such as this one.