Cyrillic Embedded Fonts
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools compete. This slogan of the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, wants to stir up a wave of popular indignation towards the emergence of the largest possible number of web-licensed fonts that support Cyrillic. One hundred schools in this case - various slots and services that provide embedded fonts.
Currently, such services are actively developing. The largest of these, Typekit, currently contains 376 fonts from more than 30 manufacturers . But bad luck: Typekit currently supports only a subset of Latin-1 , although it is working on adding support for other Unicode subsets.
What to do right now to us Cyrillic users?
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Fortunately, the wonderful Dutch foundry Typotheque independently offers a web license for its fonts, some of which support Cyrillic : Greta Text and Fedra Serif with serifs, as well as several Fedra Sans sans serif styles. Of these, the company recommends only Fedra Sans for screen reading, which does not prevent, however, using serif fonts for headings.
The cost of a web license of one font is 18 €, which is five times cheaper than a full license (allowing the use of a font for both printing and web). As a drawback, it is worth noting that when you purchase a web license, the font will be loaded to the user from Typotheque servers, which are most likely located in Holland. And the download speed for some users may be lower than the download speed from their own server or from Typekit distributed servers.
However, there are designers in Russian villages! However, in Ukrainian too. Such designers who are willing to share the results of their work with all others for "thank you." And there are a lot of such designers on Kernest.com. However, there are those who are willing to share not for “thank you”, but for inexpensive ones. The overwhelming majority of Cyrillic fonts here are incidental, that is, suitable for non-long large inscriptions (for example, headings).
I believe with all my might that our miners will keep up with progress and offer web licensing. Of course, there are a lot of purely legal problems (including putting a purchased license on the company's balance sheet and tracking the legitimacy of using a font), but all these problems can be solved.
Fortunately, Emil Yakupov, director of ParaType (the leading Russian digital slogan), reported the following:
I think that the further development of the Cyrillic web typography industry depends also on the activity of each of us. Did you write a letter with a question about web licensing to a familiar slob?
Currently, such services are actively developing. The largest of these, Typekit, currently contains 376 fonts from more than 30 manufacturers . But bad luck: Typekit currently supports only a subset of Latin-1 , although it is working on adding support for other Unicode subsets.
What to do right now to us Cyrillic users?
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Plan A: Typotheque Headsets
Fortunately, the wonderful Dutch foundry Typotheque independently offers a web license for its fonts, some of which support Cyrillic : Greta Text and Fedra Serif with serifs, as well as several Fedra Sans sans serif styles. Of these, the company recommends only Fedra Sans for screen reading, which does not prevent, however, using serif fonts for headings.
The cost of a web license of one font is 18 €, which is five times cheaper than a full license (allowing the use of a font for both printing and web). As a drawback, it is worth noting that when you purchase a web license, the font will be loaded to the user from Typotheque servers, which are most likely located in Holland. And the download speed for some users may be lower than the download speed from their own server or from Typekit distributed servers.
Plan B: Free and Paid Fonts at Kernest.com
However, there are designers in Russian villages! However, in Ukrainian too. Such designers who are willing to share the results of their work with all others for "thank you." And there are a lot of such designers on Kernest.com. However, there are those who are willing to share not for “thank you”, but for inexpensive ones. The overwhelming majority of Cyrillic fonts here are incidental, that is, suitable for non-long large inscriptions (for example, headings).
- Accident fonts from 4th February , from free to $ 15 per font.
- Various free fonts from Jovanny Lemonad ( Days font is very good).
- Free Old Standard from Alexey Kryukov. You can read about the family on the page of the project “Sun” . The family is interesting by the support of the Greek and can be used for a set of texts containing fragments in Old Church Slavonic, Church Slavonic, etc. languages.
- Free Heuristica from Andrei Panov, based on Adobe Utopia.
- A pair of free fonts from Roman Ershov .
- Free Antykwa Toruńska headset by Polish designer Siegfried Gardzelevsky .
- The free 43 -sans serif typeface from the Japanese project M + Fonts , while not all of them contain Cyrillic. Due to its Japanese origin, Kan and Kanji are notable. That is, Japanese alphabets and hieroglyphs.
Plan B: wait and pull at Russian shelters
I believe with all my might that our miners will keep up with progress and offer web licensing. Of course, there are a lot of purely legal problems (including putting a purchased license on the company's balance sheet and tracking the legitimacy of using a font), but all these problems can be solved.
Fortunately, Emil Yakupov, director of ParaType (the leading Russian digital slogan), reported the following:
There are still unresolved issues in technical implementation, and how prices and licensing methods will be arranged. All autumn we have been steeped in projects that should be completed this year. I think that in the first quarter of next year we will build a certain number of fonts in Web-formats and try on them different sales models and different partners. Let's see what will be reviews about the service Tipoteka and TaypKita. We are unlikely to keep a font server, they will be enough without us, it will be easier and cheaper to rent. And we probably will just sell EOT and WOFF so that you can place them directly on the same servers where the content lies. But again, this is only an assumption, if it turns out that selling font references is safer, and it becomes normal practice, then we will do the same.
I think that the further development of the Cyrillic web typography industry depends also on the activity of each of us. Did you write a letter with a question about web licensing to a familiar slob?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/78664/
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