Embedding
Places where you can get web ready Typodermic fonts
Fontspring offers desktop fonts & web fonts on a sharp looking site.
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Typekit provides rock solid web hosting for many of my fonts.
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MyFonts.com offers web fonts and free updates. If you purchase a web kit, an addendum to the standard EULA applies. You can use a regular license if you want to do your own embedding with less restrictions or pay a little more and get a multi-format, web-ready kit.
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You can convert my fonts to web fonts yourself
If you can figure out how to do it, you're welcome to do so. Embedding fonts is still pretty tricky these days. Browser makers and font makers are still trying to come up with a system that works for everyone. For general information on web embedding, visit Readable Web and subscribe to updates. You can convert my fonts (yes, even free ones) for web embedding or you can purchase various web embedding solutions.
Here are some current embedding options, all of which are convered by my standard license agreement.
Raster Graphics
This isn’t technically embedding: the licensed font user creates bitmap graphics (gif, png, jpg) for headlines and titles. The rendered text is added to the site just like any other image. Raster graphics are not scalable and the words within are not web searchable. They work on every web browser. FLIR is a type of raster graphics embedding (see section below).
WOFF embedding
Web Open Font Format. You can convert my fonts to WOFF and use them on a web site. It hasn’t been adopted by every browser yet but they’ll catch up soon. Font designers prefer the WOFF format because it offers some security and the fonts can’t be installed on the desktop.
@font-face linking
Some browsers will let you assign @font-face linked fonts in a style sheet. When the page is displayed in a browser, the fonts are loaded on the user’s system. That may sound great but for various reasons not all font designers or browsers support it.
Embedded OpenType
Embedded OpenType has been in use for over a decade. Fonts are converted from TrueType format into an EOT (Embedded OpenType) font using a conversion tool called WEFT. The resulting font is subset; unused characters are removed. This makes the file smaller and a less useful to those who might try to extract them. The resulting font is restricted to a specific domain. Software compression makes EOT fonts load very quickly. The main disadvantage of EOT is that it currently only works in Internet Explorer for Windows. If you’re only interesting in supporting Explorer, EOT is a good choice, especially since it works in older versions.
EOTFAST is a tool which allows you to convert your own compressed EOT Lite so they download even faster.
EOT Lite
EOT Lite is Embedded OpenType with the domain restrictions and compression removed. EOT Lite is backwards compatible with older versions of Internet Explorer for Windows, even versions from a decade ago. EOT Lite only works in Internet Explorer.
sIFR
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement uses Flash to embed fonts on a site. It’s more useful for headings, not body text. If the user doesn’t have Flash installed, the text will appear as plain text according to style sheet rules. It’s not the ideal web embedding solution but it works right now except on iDevices.
Cufón embedding
Cufón uses JavaScript to embed fonts on a site. Cufón has some disadvantages but it works on all browsers right now. Even though the rendering isn’t perfect, for headlines, it might do the trick.
FLIR embedding
Facelift Image Replacement is a server side type renderer that works on all browsers. Visit the official Facelift Image Replacement site for details. My license agreement allows server installation provided that the end user can's use the fonts to create something. Read my standard license agreement for details.
Embedding fonts in documents
The current license agreement allows embedding in PDF documents. If you have trouble embedding, make sure you have the latest version of the font. The embedding permissions in my font are set to disallow editing by the recipient. The reason for this is becuase some popular software applications can't handle more generous embedding permissions. Font can be embedded in any type of document as long as the recipient can't install or otherwise use the fonts to create something.
Embedding fonts in e-books
The current license agreement allows embedding in any e-book format.
Embedding fonts in software
Typodermic Fonts can be embedded in software as long as the end user can't use the fonts to create something. Most font companies require custom licensing for this type of situation. Not Typodermic. We're rapidly approaching an age where using fonts for printing on paper is the rare exception and embedding in applications is normal use. Yet, most font companies require a custom agreement for use in software.
After embedding the fonts in software, can someone using the software use those fonts to create something? For example: digital greeting cards, posters, t-shirts, crossword puzzles, PDF, web templates, signs, DVD menus. If your software allows users to create those things or anything else, then the situation is more complicated than what the regular agreement can provide. A custom agreement is required for that type of situation.
Can someone who uses your software find the font and install it on a computer? Hackers can access almost anything but can a regular person with no special training find the font and install it? If so, you're making my fonts accessible to third parties which is not allowed in my agreement. I don't require military grade encryption, just make sure it's not installable.
Games
Games are software (see above) which means you're allowed to embed my fonts in your game. The exception is games which allow the end user to create something. For example: some children's games allow player to create and print their own posters. Most games use fonts to display information to the player: that's permitted in my standard license agreement.
Unless your game allows the player to create stuff using fonts, embedding is allowed.
Some game companies show my license agreement to their lawyers who decide that they require an agreement which specifically indicates exactly what's allowed. This happens a lot with large game companies. In that case, you should set up a custom agreement.
Web templates
If you design web templates, you can include web fonts for an affordable flat rate. Contact me and I'll tell you all about it.
Web servers
You can install a font on a server but you have comply with the standard license agreement. When end users make use of fonts on a server, they're using your software. The rules in the standard license agreement for software embedding apply. Of course you have to make sure users can't download the fonts as that would be clearly providing fonts to a third party. If you don't know how to hide fonts on your server, hire someone who does.
