The League of Moveable Type

Here’s a quick design/web geek link worth checking out. If you’ve spent anytime creating the web, or been around someone who is, you’ve probably had discussions about fonts on the web. Typography has always been a major point of differentiation between print and web design. In print, any of the worlds thousands of fonts (maybe millions if you count the multitudes of home-made fonts) you can get your hands on can go into your work. On the web, you’re limited, no, I mean limited. We’re talking less than 10 “web safe” fonts. You want something more than that? you have to resort to images, or clunky work around technologies.

We’re on the cusp of a new era for web fonts though. The future of web programming is starting to include ways to include any pretty, custom font you want to use on your website. What’s the problem now? Legality. Putting things on the web means other people can get to it, the creators of most fonts aren’t so big on that. It’s a growing battle that is mirroring many past battles (such as the record industry trying to control music sharing). We’ll see where that goes. But for now, you got to watch what fonts you use. The League of Moveable Type is a cool site of free, open source fonts that don’t come with any strings, there’s only a handful of fonts, but they’re pretty top quality!

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Listening to: Vast – Lost