The nascent Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is getting a boost this week thanks to some new initiatives being kicked off by the W3C, the web's governing body. The W3C recently created a working group to ...

Web typography just got a shot in the arm from Google, as the company has announced a free, open-source library of 18 typefaces that Web designers will now have at their disposal. Google hosts all the ...

Fonts aren’t just design elements—they’re protected assets governed by licensing rules that can make or break your creative projects. Understanding the differences between open-source, ...

The Ubuntu community has introduced a namesake open source font. In his blog Tuesday, Ubuntu creator and lead developer Mark Shuttleworth announced the publishing of the first source code for Ubuntu - ...

When you think open source, chances are you think software. You may not know that there are open-source fonts as well. Today, Google and Ubuntu have released a new free, open font to the Web: the ...

Stuart Gill, sfntly architect at Google, announced the release of the sfntly font programming library as open source last week in a <a href="http://googlecode ...

Official support for custom fonts came to iPhone and iPad with iOS 13/iPadOS 13, however, it’s a complex situation with one of the best (main) options requiring a ...

Efforts to bring advanced typography to the Web have reached an important milestone. Type designers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, who had been working to developing the .webfont format, combined ...