I don’t know how to feel about this

“Yesterday, Mozilla launched Firefox 3.6, which — among more frivolous features — supports WOFF (Web Open Font Format), the downloadable webfont format supported by most major font vendors.”

This means that rather than having to restrict web design to a handful of fonts, the door is open to more creativity. (And for those without this new version, the font is replaced with a system font). The terrifying side of this little coin is the fact that soon, when clients request Comic Sans or Papyrus for their website, I can no longer say “Sorry, that’s just not possible”. The pessimist in me is frightened that more bad than good will come of this.

Read more here. Download Firefox 3.6 here.

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