Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined ...

Google's Chrome browser plans to jump on the Web Open Font Format bandwagon. A note in the Chromium project's bug tracker says that "it appears that we have decided to implement WOFF in Chromium." ...

The Web Open Font Format, already backed by Mozilla and many type foundries was accepted by the World Wide Web Consortium yesterday, marking the first stage in its standardization. The submission ...

The nascent Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is getting a boost this week thanks to some new initiatives being kicked off by the W3C, the web's governing body. The W3C recently created a working group to ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: ‘Font’ is a representative of creative presentation of characters. In fact, ‘Font’ provides life to character representation as being perceived by a graphic artist or designers.

The software colossus signs up to sponsor standardization of the Web Open Font Format technology. Support in IE9 looks likely. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

To name a few, or rather most, Arial, Helvetica, Times New Roman and Verdana are the Web fonts most readily available to Web designers and developers today. One initiative to end this limited ...

There are quite a few font formats out there, and two of the most popular are TTF and WOFF. Now, many users would love to download and use WOFF fonts on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computers, but ...

Security firm Proofpoint has identified a phishing kit that uses fake fonts when hijacking a major retail bank brand. The scheme uses Web Open Font Format (WOFF) files to get around encoding, the ...

Co.Design talks to Mandy Brown of Typekit about why the service, which was recently acquired by Adobe, improved the web (and not just for designers). Before web fonts, type designers offered desktop ...