Monotype’s fonts.com has started to offer self-hosting your web fonts on subscribing with annual payment. This is great news as it faces one of our major cons on using its service due to very frequent high loads on servers providing remotely hosted web fonts. Continue reading »
Mar 27
Hosting Webfonts Yourself
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There are plenty of reasons to adopt new opportunities of using custom font faces to design your website. And there are several ways to achieve that. Using font providers is one of those options. In opposition to that hosting webfonts yourself is another option and it includes some essential benefits. Though there is software on the net to help you with serving yourself some fonts this post is introducing a new implementation of a webfont provider using commonly available language PHP. Continue reading »
Jun 17
Webfonts in Safari
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On trying out support for webfonts in all contemporary browsers using CSS3 @font-face container I had some trouble on support by Safari 4 on Windows. This was very astonishing to me since Safari is promoted as the browser initially supporting TrueType and OpenType fonts this way.
After some tests I found Safari (at least on Windows computers) failing to properly derive and support small caps font variant. Webfonts aren’t used in Safari unless you remove rule on using font-variant small-caps whenever you select the font family added to your browser’s font database.
