IE Blog publishes interesting article on embedding Fonts

By Jason Ashdown

Link to IE Blog: Font Embedding on the Web

The IE Team talks about how you can embed any type of font you want into your web pages. This has been a highly desirable feature for years but has been a tough one to implement.

Apparently the guys at http://www.fontembedding.com/ have come up with a “prototype” way to convert font’s into a friendly format for your web pages.

Surprisingly enough, with the battle of the modern browsers, only versions of IE 4 and above can support this feature (pretty much all IE versions) but none of the opposing browsers like Firefox, Opera or Safari support this function.

Try it out for yourself with the 6 free sample font’s they have on their website. It definitely works, but unless all browsers can agree on implementing this feature, it might be a pointless measure.