Sam is a developer at IDRsolutions who mostly specialises in font support and conversion. He's also enjoyed working with Java 3D, Java FX and Swing. His other interests include music and game design.
It’s safe to say that if someone designed fonts from scratch today they’d be very different on the inside. As with many technologies, the formats have evolved to allow for backwards compatibility and new requirements in ways which make them a bit, well, weird. What’s weird with fonts on the web? Modern web fonts contain…
WOFF 2.0 is working its way towards being a standard recommended by the W3C, so it seems like a good time to look at the WOFF format and where it’s headed. The Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a font wrapper format designed to cut font sizes for quicker loading over the internet and lower…
I was planning to write about WOFF 2.0 this week, and wanted to link to a previous article I’d written which explains the structure of web fonts. Much to my surprise, I realised I somehow hadn’t written it yet! So WOFF 2.0 will have to wait until next time. Here’s a quick introduction to the structure…
We’ve spent a lot of time making sure that fonts inside PDFs look good when run through our PDF to HTML5 converter. In the process, we’ve learned a lot about how to make sure fonts look good in HTML5. Here’s our top 5 tips! 1. If possible, use TrueType outlines Most modern font formats are…
In the early days of computers, text was stored in a simple way. Usually, one byte was used per character giving you the ability to use up to 128 different characters. (Back then the number of bits in a byte was not universally agreed, so the smallest regularly used byte length – 7 bits –…
