The State of Web Fonts

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It seems like only yesterday we were having to use all manner of image replacement techniques to use more than the most basic set of fonts

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Date:
Central European Summer Time
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Location:
Paris - France
Speakers:
Chris Lilley (W3C)

It seems like only yesterday we were having to use all manner of image replacement techniques just to use more than the most basic set of fonts on the web. But with CSS Level 3 OpenType font features, the widely adopted WOFF format, Chromatic Fonts, and more recently OpenType variable fonts - a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts - the capabilities opening up for typography on the web are extraordinary.

In this session, Chris Lilley shows us what's possible today, and in the near future