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Ubiquitous web font embedding just got a step closer

The font foundries needed to unify and hire even one person who understands the W3C. They could have created an open implementation that supports licensed fonts, probably as a fork of WebKit. If obtaining a license was as simple as requesting access to a font company’s CDN for a specific font, they likely could have gotten popular support in addition to standards support.

I suspect the only remaining opportunity for them to make any money is the CDN angle. If a font foundry is willing to provide a fast CDN for their fonts, and charge a license fee based on the REFERER [sic] the browser sends, they stand to make substantial money in license fees from large companies who want to use more than the free fonts on solid legal ground in a high-performance manner.

Without that I think unfortunately font designers will simply not be rewarded for their fonts used online.

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