{"id":1768,"date":"2010-05-20T04:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2010-05-20T04:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:11:08","slug":"fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/20\/fonts","title":{"rendered":"Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m amazed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fonts.com\/FindFonts\/detail.htm?pid=4337163\">Helvetica<\/a>, a rather beautiful font, costs USD$741. I know fonts take a lot of time to make, and generally cost a lot of money (a conversation I had with <a href=\"http:\/\/keithp.com\/\">Keith Packard<\/a> sometime in 2004 cemented this into my head). Recently, I read in Monocle about Japanese font-maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monocle.com\/sections\/design\/Magazine-Articles\/Fonts-of-knowledge\/\">Morisawa<\/a> and figured that fonts are truly, really expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Apple ships Helvetica. But as a &#8220;dfont&#8221; package. Good thing there&#8217;s a utility called <a href=\"http:\/\/peter.upfold.org.uk\/projects\/dfontsplitter\">DfontSplitter<\/a> (Windows and MacOSX only). It allows you to extract the font as a TTF. But legally, you might not be able to use it for Web Embedding either.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/cufon.shoqolate.com\/generate\/\">Cuf\u00c3\u00b3n<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/sorccu\/cufon\">source<\/a>). Its a simple web utility &#8211; upload the font, and it generates the font in a format, and then there&#8217;s a little rendering engine that pops out in JavaScript for your usage. Very handy. Now websites can have embedded fonts, and things start looking the way you designed them to look.<\/p>\n<p>As an aside, I used to generate favicon&#8217;s using an image editor. Nowadays, it seems like you might as well just move to the web &#8211; one less use for desktop software &#8211; use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.favicon.cc\/\">favicon.ico Generator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Fonts&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F05%2F20%2Ffonts&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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I know fonts take a lot of time to make, and generally cost a lot of money (a conversation I had with Keith Packard sometime in 2004 cemented this into my head). Recently, I read in Monocle about Japanese font-maker Morisawa and figured that fonts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Fonts&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F05%2F20%2Ffonts&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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