Ascender is pleased to announce a new tool for qualified type designers and foundries to create EOT Lite fonts from their TTF or OTF fonts. More information about what this tool does is available on our website: http://www.ascendercorp.com/info/eot-lite-wrap-tool/ The tool supports the E... [More]

Ascender has announced a new Web Fonts license to allow web designers to embed fonts on their websites. The web fonts license provides web designers with access to a broad collection of high quality commercial fonts in a less restrictive implementation of the Embedded OpenType (EOT) font format du... [More]

Following our proposal for a Web specific OpenType-based font format (which we named OTW), we received a lot of feedback from type designers, web designers and publishers. Most of the feedback was positive. People saw that differentiating web fonts from desktop fonts, and including licensing infor... [More]

There are a lot of discussions on going on regarding web fonts. Ascender would like to propose a solution to the issue of web fonts that we meets the needs of web designers, the font community, and browser developers. OVERVIEW As the web evolves, web developers want to use a broader selection ... [More]

The W3C recently held a meeting to discuss EOT and a proposal to establish a Fonts Working Group. You can view the minutes of the meeting here: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ... [More]

Note: This post is submitted by Bill Hill (http://billhillsblog.blogspot.com) For hundreds of years, printers and publishers have included a Colophon in books. That's a section - usually a page, often at the back of the book - which describes which fonts were used to set it, and perhaps giv... [More]

It is time for the font community to make our voices heard. We would like to know if you think EOT is a better solution for web fonts than font linking. Let's hear what you have to say!

There will be a panel discussion on Web Fonts and Font Embedding at the TypeCon 2008 Conference at 9:50 a.m on Sunday July 20, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, New York. Moderating the panel will be Adam Twardoch (FontLab/MyFonts). On the panel will be Simon Daniels (Microsoft), Roger Bla... [More]

Before I dive into a discussion on Font Embedding I thought it might be appropriate to provide a frame of reference about this author. Believe it or not I’ve been personally involved with digital fonts in one way or another since I graduated from RIT in 1981. A lot has happened in the past 2... [More]