Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
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Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
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Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#2Startup idea, anyone ?
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#3Startup idea, anyone ?
The idea is OK, but one needs to have connections in typographic community to execute it. Going foundry by foundry and convincing them to take their heads out of DRM hole and consider simpler, unsexy options such as this one. This can translate into a lot of effort.
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#4Great concept, but who needs a service? This should just be an open source plugin. I dump all of my local fonts into a folder and then just "Comic Sans", :height => "400" %> -- add a cache and this would be splendid.
PS. By "local fonts" I mean http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4475069/Font_Collection_(65_...
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#5Great concept, but who needs a service? This should just be an open source plugin. I dump all of my local fonts into a folder and then just "Comic Sans", :height => "400" %> -- add a cache and this would be splendid. PS. By "local fonts" I mean http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4475069/Font_Collection_(65_...
I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance.
> who needs a service ?
Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#6Great concept, but who needs a service? This should just be an open source plugin. I dump all of my local fonts into a folder and then just "Comic Sans", :height => "400" %> -- add a cache and this would be splendid. PS. By "local fonts" I mean http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4475069/Font_Collection_(65_...
I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance. > who needs a service ? Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate them for their work.
Yeah, okay, well if you still cling to the antiquated concept of IP then I won't downvote you for sheer ignorance.
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#7personally, i'll stay w/ typekit. the commenter (on typophile) who raised issue with images not being 100% accessible has a real point: now that i can use non-standard fonts in a standard way, ill take scalable text over an image.
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#8Stupid idea. That's what's already done today and it's not good enough: doesn't reflow, doesn't zoom properly, does not work for dynamic texts (eh buddy, ever heard of FUCKING BLOGS?), isn't that great for accessibility, SUCKS a lot for the mobile web, and so on and so forth.
Why, oh why do I have to state the fucking obvious here?
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#9> If you think for a moment how exactly non-standard fonts are used in the web design, it will immediately make perfect sense. They are used sparingly for headers, menus and such and they are always rasterized.
Non-standard fonts are used sparingly precisely because they have to be rasterized.
Re: Why Rent or Buy, When You Can Rasterize.
#10Great concept, but who needs a service? This should just be an open source plugin. I dump all of my local fonts into a folder and then just "Comic Sans", :height => "400" %> -- add a cache and this would be splendid. PS. By "local fonts" I mean http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4475069/Font_Collection_(65_...
re: "who needs a service": Jitterbug is an open source plugin that renders images of text suitable for image replacement:
http://github.com/flyingsaucer/jitterbug