The software colossus signs up to sponsor standardization of the Web Open Font Format technology. Support in IE9 looks likely. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Finding free web fonts can be difficult when you're designing on a budget but thankfully there are a whole host of options ...

The font company is releasing patented compression technology in an attempt to bring faster, nicer fonts to the Web, and Google is helping out the effort. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Google’s Web Fonts collection of open source fonts is now available on the desktop (Mac and Windows). At first glance, that doesn’t make all that much sense, given that the whole idea of Web Fonts is ...

Slowly, but surely, web browsers are creeping towards some form of parity when it comes to using custom fonts in CSS. It's rather disturbing how long it's taken considering that dynamic fonts were ...

While Web publishing continues to challenge the printed page as the primary means of sharing text, in one aspect it still lags way behind Johannes Gutenberg’s 500 year old technology: Web developers ...