Hi all,
I have noticed that this subject has been discussed erarlier, but perhaps something new has come up since then. I want to embed Garamond Light to a website.
I tried Craxton but Adobe has blacklisted Garamond along with several other fonts of theirs.
Is there another simpler way to do it.
Most grateful for help.
Ulf
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What do you mean, blacklisted? Even though Fontsquirrel themselves won’t offer the web font kit themselves, I still am able to upload the TT or OTF fonts to the web font generator, and so create them ‘myself’. The Caxton action never has let me down here …
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Hi Richard,
I’m afraid the web font generator at FontSquirrel WILL reject some fonts -
because these fonts are the intellectual property of companies with very
powerful lawyers. It’s happened to me.
Ulf, there are many commercial fonts (including Adobe) available as
webfonts… you can access them through commercial services like TypeKit -
which is Adobe’s product and available to Creative Cloud subscribers.
The standard (at the moment) for fonts is that web font use is an
additional license on top of print use. However, there are plenty of
foundries creating similar looks that don’t have these restrictions (yet).
It just takes some creative googling, I think to find them. Or, pay the
price for the real deal - isn’t a bad thing, really.
Best,
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Ernie Simpson
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I just went through this for a major client, who sent me the Web fonts (properly licensed, naturally). I was not able to use the online tools to write out the @font CSS for me, and had to do it long-hand, by firelight, on the back of a shovel with a bit of coal. The font was recognized as being owned by one of the major foundries, and the online tool refused to help me.
Walter
On Mar 7, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Richard van Heukelum wrote:
What do you mean, blacklisted? Even though Fontsquirrel themselves won’t offer the web font kit themselves, I still am able to upload the TT or OTF fonts to the web font generator, and so create them ‘myself’. The Caxton action never has let me down here …
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As Ernie points out there are many “Garamond” lookalikes that do not have the same restrictions. Have a search for one of them.
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It’s probably due to the fact that I haven’t use them or didn’t run into that issue yet. Any chance renaming the font before uploading them to the web font generator might help?
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These systems (if they’re even remotely smart, and if their lawyers are even remotely smart) would have no trouble telling whether a font was on their hit list by simple technical means – you would have to alter the font itself, to the point where it wouldn’t actually work – to fool it. You can prove this to yourself if you’re curious.
Prepare two text files with exactly the same contents, and different names. Open Terminal.app, and cd into the folder where you have placed these files (simplest way to get to this point is to put both of the files in your Home folder (the one named after your user account), because Terminal opens to that folder by default. Let’s say you called them foo.txt and bar.txt. Type the following command into Terminal (substitute your file names as needed):
md5 foo.txt bar.txt
You should see this:
MD5 (foo.txt) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
MD5 (bar.txt) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
(in fact, if you used empty files for this comparison, as I did, you would see EXACTLY this). MD5 is an extremely fast, nearly collision-free, one-way hash algorithm. What this means is that if you hash two different files, and you get the same output (always a 32 character string, but nearly infinitely variable depending on the input file), you can say with some certainty that the two files are identical internally. The file name is not a factor in this comparison.
Walter
On Mar 8, 2014, at 4:56 AM, Richard van Heukelum wrote:
It’s probably due to the fact that I haven’t use them or didn’t run into that issue yet. Any chance renaming the font before uploading them to the web font generator might help?
Richard
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