Typegirl

Most of the important foundries are supporting #webfont

It’s true. With this much weight behind the .webfont proposal (2.1), it ~~has to~~ should be taken seriously.

The foundries listed below have expressed their support for the WebOTF proposal. The term “support” is understood to be general approval of the proposal and its intentions, not an exclusive commitment to it, or a formal endorsement of it.

Update: Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, along with the help of Jonathan Kew (Mozilla), have written an updated proposal and re-christened the format, WebOTF. Read the new proposal. Until I hear back from all foundries, only those foundries in italic have stated their support of this ~~new~~ updated format.

Adobe
Alphabet Fonts
Bold Monday
Carter & Cone Type Inc.
Chank Fonts
Christian Schwartz / Commercial Type
Emigre
Erik Spiekermann, Founder of FontFont & FontShop
Exljbris Font Foundry
Feliciano Type Foundry
FontFont
Fonthead
Fontsmith
Fountain
Gerard Unger
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
House Industries
IHOF
Incipit
Incubator
ITC Fonts
Jeremy Tankard Typography
John Downer
KLTF
Kombinat-Typefounders
Kris Sowersby / Klim Type Foundry
Lanston Type
Letterror
Linotype
Mac Rhino Fonts
Mark Simonson Studio
Monotype
Mota Italic
Nicolas Massi
Optimo
Opto / Jean-Baptiste Levée
Outras Fontes
P22 Type Foundry
Primetype
Process Type Foundry
Psy/Ops
Rimmer Type Foundry
Sherwood Type Col.
Steve Mehallo
Stone Type Foundry
Sudtipos
Thirstype
Type Supply
Typofonderie
Typotheque
Underware
Village
1919 Type Foundry

John Gruber supports it too. TypeKit also likes the idea of it.

Based on what I understand, I am biased toward WebOTF. But I should mention there is another format, in addition to WebOTF, also garnering support for EOT Lite as another format being considered.

[Note: This is an evolving post. As new foundries are known to support it I will add them.]

Posted 4 months ago & Filed under webfonts, 26 notes