Typotheque Web Font System now supports Chrome

Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 9:14am

Google recently released a new Beta of their Chrome browser. This is great news for web typography as every major browser now supports @font-face web font linking: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Safari. According to Wikipedia, the percentage of web browsers that support @font-face declaration is by now 98.63%.

We’ve just updated our Web Font Service, and now support Google Chrome. Typotheque makes heavy subsetting of fonts, and to make the font files as small as possible, we remove some font tables that web browsers do not require. One of this tables however was required by Chrome, so we had to update the system.

If you used Typotheque Web Font System before you need to update the CSS and fonts. Simply login to your account, go to Web fonts section, Edit the project, and click Save.

New articles: Methods of distribution

Monday, December 21, 2009 at 12:00pm

Peter Biľak wrote a text for this year’s edition of Graphisme en France. The text discusses conventional distribution methods of digital typefaces and their alternatives. Read the English or French version.

Typotheque licenses its online tools

Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 9:51am

We at Typotheque have been not only developing our typefaces but also tools to present them online. Some of them are products of years of developement, and occasionally we received questions if they are publicly available. We developed documented Application Programming Interface (API), and offer now our tools for licensing via our new website type-applications.com.

First tool that we offer for licensing is the OpenType Font Tester. The tester renders both GPOS and GSUB tables, making this suitable for multilingual fonts, or fonts with advanced OpenType substitutions.

Fonts are hosted on a network of secure servers making the service extra fast and reliable, but the interface is fully integrated to client's website. Because browsers have limits on how many simultaneous requests they can make to individual servers, hosting fonts on third-party servers will utilise more connections, loading files much faster than if they were hosted on the same server. Client has full control over the appearance of the tester and which OpenType features are offered for testing.

Get in touch if you have questions about the tools, or you are interested in giving it a try.

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Typotheque Web Font System now supports ChromeDec 23, 2009

New articles: Methods of distributionDec 21, 2009

Typotheque licenses its online toolsNov 26, 2009

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Typotheque launches its Web Fonts ServiceOct 20, 2009

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