Google fonts and typekit offer solutions so you don't have to think about this. just pay attention when applying it: you may not even need it first off, second off, after you apply it, test it in the browsers and environments that you are supporting.when i do i am looking in particular for performance issues. Burton mentioned -webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased, which offhand should make your solution more robust.
when used appropriately, this sets the foundation for cross-browser/cross-platform domination, however the ecosystem is so broken, your experiences will vary, particular when dealing with old/weak hardware, old/weak browsers, and may god help you should you have to deal with both. The latter allows any font to be converted, whereas font squirrel will prevent you from converting fonts if their creator has asked them to.įont squirrel will also take all of your desired format conversions and roll them up into your own personal declaration. You can convert your fonts to other font formats at Gradient or pattern fill enables customized text to remain selectable WOFF fonts combined with a text stroke and Image headers containing decorative text may beĬandidates for using SVG. It can be copied and pasted, searched,Īnd easily updated. To the added benefit of scalability, the text in charts and diagrams Charts and diagrams fall under this category.
Images containing text are better served as SVG than a rasterĪlternative. This is the closest I got to the subject, but it talks about text in SVG graphics, not SVG fonts. WOFF, TTF and others render differently depending on browser and OS, but your font will always be displayed.Ībout the accessibility, mentioned as a possible issue by DA01, I can't find any specifications regarding browsers either.
So, in short: SVG fonts render nicely, but are not supported by IE or Firefox.
There is a proposal by the SVG glyphs for OpenType Community Group to add a subset of SVG to OpenType. Before, SVG Fonts were the only way to use webfonts on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad), and that's why FontSquirrel includes them in their font-face package, but iOS 4.2 added support for TTF fonts. Opera and WebKit added support for SVG, but Mozilla and Microsoft decided not to, and that limits their usefulness. You can use SVG fonts, but you have to be aware of the browser compatibility limitations. That's why I always try to test drive the fonts live (some foundries allow this) for different browsers and OS. This is not the case for all of them, but it is for most. Differences in the way the fonts are rendered are, unfortunately, impossible to avoid.
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