{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m amazed that Helvetica, 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 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","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1127,1125,1126,1128,1124,1123],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cufon","tag-dfont","tag-dfontsplitter","tag-favicon","tag-font","tag-fonts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4vJD-fonts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}