W3C WebFonts working group approved and created

John Hudson18 March 2010 · 21:26

[Vlad has already mentioned this in numerous existing threads on webfonts, but I think it is an important development and one that deserves its more general attention, especially from those who may wish to contribute to or monitor the webfont standardisation effort.]

Today the World Wide Web Consortium announced the creation of a webfonts working group, following their usual lengthy approval process. Details of this working group, including the approved charter, were posted to the W3C font discussion list today by Chris Lilley:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-font/2010JanMar/0044.html

As my dog would say: Woff! Woff!

kentlew19 March 2010 · 04:55

John Hudson19 March 2010 · 10:50

Kent, I nominate that as the official WOFF webfont logo.

Si_Daniels19 March 2010 · 11:13

I think the type could use some sub-pixel positioning, to move the first F left a sub-pixel.

miha19 March 2010 · 11:40

I really like that dog – when rendered so big, in 72 points – is displayed with grayscale anti-aliasing, and its woff in supbixels. This must be a clever pun to show how different are rasterizers.

Si_Daniels19 March 2010 · 11:53

>I really like that dog

True. The font communities dogged resistance to raw fonts pays off!