Comments on: @font-face http://nickcowie.com/2008/font-face/ Web standards, accessibility and such like with a bias toward Government web sites Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:29:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Richard Fink http://nickcowie.com/2008/font-face/comment-page-1/#comment-37804 Richard Fink Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:29:41 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=370#comment-37804 If you're going to be using @font-face web fonts check out this new free tool: <a href="http://eotfast.com" rel="nofollow">EOTFAST</a> EOTFAST is a utility for creating natively compressed EOT files for use with any domain. Convert once, use on any site. Savings in file size typically range from 45% to 70%. It's fair to say that other conversions utilities like Microsoft WEFT or ttf2eot are now obsolete. A great screen font like Droid Serif starts out at 169kb as a TTF with the full character set but as an EOTFAST file it weighs in at only 80kb. With still the full character set. Compression is lossless. The documentation contains information for designers looking to prepare fonts for use on the web. The download package also contains a HTML "EOT File Integrity Test" page and a helpful "fallback" test font. <a href="http://eotfast.com" rel="nofollow">EOTFAST</a> is a must-have for anyone looking to use @font-face web fonts today. If you’re going to be using @font-face web fonts check out this new free tool:
EOTFAST
EOTFAST is a utility for creating natively compressed EOT files for use with any domain.
Convert once, use on any site. Savings in file size typically range from 45% to 70%.
It’s fair to say that other conversions utilities like Microsoft WEFT or ttf2eot are now obsolete.
A great screen font like Droid Serif starts out at 169kb as a TTF with the full character set but as an EOTFAST file it weighs in at only 80kb. With still the full character set. Compression is lossless.
The documentation contains information for designers looking to prepare fonts for use on the web.
The download package also contains a HTML “EOT File Integrity Test” page and a helpful “fallback” test font.
EOTFAST is a must-have for anyone looking to use @font-face web fonts today.

]]> By: Tutte le nuove caratteristiche dei CSS3 « Beaver Magazine http://nickcowie.com/2008/font-face/comment-page-1/#comment-37800 Tutte le nuove caratteristiche dei CSS3 « Beaver Magazine Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:50:15 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=370#comment-37800 [...] @font-face [...] […] @font-face […]

]]> By: TulipVorlax http://nickcowie.com/2008/font-face/comment-page-1/#comment-37799 TulipVorlax Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:02:30 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/?p=370#comment-37799 Thanks for all of this. I dont use the !important clause as i place my if-comments after the link to the first CSS. I found the following site to convert any ttf to eot : http://ttf2eot.sebastiankippe.com/ Not assosiated with it in any way, just hoping it's usefull. Thanks for all of this.

I dont use the !important clause as i place my if-comments after the link to the first CSS.

I found the following site to convert any ttf to eot :

http://ttf2eot.sebastiankippe.com/

Not assosiated with it in any way, just hoping it’s usefull.

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