Fwd: Fwd: SVG Fonts

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From: Rick <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: SVG Fonts
To: [email protected]




On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Chris Lilley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > To be clear - they already are useful and already are used. However,
> > content tends to break in Mozilla because they are not supported, so a
> > fallback font is used with greater or lesser breakage in terms of design
> > intent and legibility.
> >
>
> But what are they used for that a custom, downloadable TTF/OTF font could
> not be used for?
>

There isn't anything a TTF font can do that SVG Fonts can't do, the only
thing SVG fonts can do that TTF fonts can't do is merge SVG rendering with
text semantics.

But that one thing is very powerful.

And if you have text metrics/semantics and SVG rendering, the job is almost
done for you already.


>
> Rob
> --
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