Andrei's Open Letter to Adobe
Posted Aug 29, 2006 in Design and
Design By Fire’s Andrei Herasimchuk writes an open letter to Adobe to request the release of a set of core fonts to the general public for use in web browsers. I’d love to be able to specify Helvetica Neue for headlines and have a reasonable expectation that most users would see it, rather than a dingy knock-off like Arial.
Comment by Ben Buchanan at 30 August, 12:00 am
That post needs the heartwarming tale removed ;)
The fonts nominated are not especially varied to the untrained eye – a lot of users won’t seriously notice the difference between them. Nor in fact will many users notice a difference between the nominated fonts and something like Arial.
I can also see that Apple and Microsoft might not automatically agree to distribute another corporation’s work, for free.
That said, designers could install these fonts on their own servers – all would not be lost.