Chicago Font Symposium - The Evolution of Font Management
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THE EVOLUTION OF FONT MANAGEMENT Presented by Jim Kidwell
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Agenda
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Linotype machines Letraset Phototypesetters
Evolve to Survive
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Macintosh + PC (r)evolution
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Digital Font Formats
• Bitmapped • PostScript • TrueType • TTC, Multiple Master, dfont, AAT, etc. • OpenType
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More Fonts, More Problems
• Limited disk space • Limited system memory • Printer fonts didn’t render well onscreen
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Adobe Type Manager
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Font Suitcases
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Mac OS X
• Native onscreen PostScript rendering • ATM no longer required • Font Book application
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Font Book
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Windows
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Windows 7 & 8
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Single User Font Management
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Modern, Professional Single User Font Management
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Modern Single User Font Management
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Activation States
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Library Organization
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Multiple Preview Types
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Detailed Font Data
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Searchable
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Plug-in based font activation
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Panel-based management
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A little Fontspiration
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And… for Windows as well
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Server-based Font Management
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Font Distribution & Synchronization
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Why Distribute & Synchronize? 1. Solve technical issues
a. Missing fonts
b. Incorrect fonts
2. Brand control
3. Font compliance
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Workgroup Organization
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Organize by User Type
Production
Design
Editorial
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Organize by Client
Ford
Macy’s
Nike
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Organize by Project
Website
Collateral
Event
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Font Compliance
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Font Licenses
• Typeface designs cannot be copyrighted
• Fonts are licensed as software
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Compliance Strategies
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Compliance through workgroup access
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Compliance through user permissions
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Extending Compliance to ALL users
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Fonts and the Web
• Old problem
• The new solutions
• How to deal with it?
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Previous font use on the web
• Design for end user’s machine
• About 12 “web safe” fonts
• Clunky & boring
• Text locked in images
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The @font-face Revolution
• Browsers modernize
• @font-face tag
• Fonts can now be on web servers
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The rub
• Most fonts were not licensed for
distribution on web servers
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Web Font Solutions
• Type foundries sell new licenses &
font formats
• Web font services
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Web Design Process
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Designing with Web Fonts • License desktop fonts from foundry
• Plug-in for Photoshop
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Evolution…
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Resources Font Management Best Practices: Single User & Server-based • www.extensis.com/fmbpg
Web Font Plug-in for Photoshop • webfontplugin.com
Connect on Twitter • @extensis • @webink • @jimkidwell