Episode 20 – Fonts
CORRECTION: Joshua was on a business trip last week, not at DBW. He WILL be at DBW next week.
Listener feedback
- Jennings Crawford from Libre Digital: title pages and branding, sales links in samples
News
- Aldiko 2.0, http://www.aldiko.com/blog/aldiko-book-reader-2-0-is-now-available-to-all
- eBook Technologies revisited
- Amazon buys out lovefilm.com (European Netflix) http://kindleworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/moguls-at-amazon-buy-out-netflix-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+AKindleWorld+(A+Kindle+World+blog)
Fonts
- Default fonts in Kindle
- Default fonts in ePub readers
- iBooks – iosfonts.com
- Embedding fonts in apple now requires a com file in the META-INF with an option <option name=”specified-fonts”>true</option>
- Nook, Sony, etc.
- iBooks – iosfonts.com
- Embedding
- ADE character support sucks
- Web Open Fonts Format
- Lossless file compression
- Added Font metadata
- Currently the use of WOFF asks that you give a link to the WOFF and the ttf for graceful degradation.
- Google Font Directory
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