March 2006 Archives

Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) Annual Conference
Lisbon, Portugal, 27 Sep - 1 Oct, 2006

March 21, 2006 - Call for Presentation Proposals for the TypeTech Forum of the ATypI Lisbon 2006 conference.

The Board of Directors of ATypI is proud to note that the ATypI Conference is sponsored by many of the leading companies in the graphic arts and computing. Early sponsorship for Lisbon comes from the Microsoft Corporation.

The ATypI 2006 TypeTech Forum committee invites submissions of abstracts for presentations on any theme related to technology in type design and typesetting. Based on previous feedback, there will be no separate introductory section this year; potential presenters should assume that their audience is versed in the basics of type technology, such as Unicode and OpenType.

I'll get that second half of the font protection discussion up soon. But it's been forever since I posted - the Macromedia merger has been a huge time sink, and my other work just hasn't gone away, so blog posting was the thing I could most afford to put off.

Anyway, an interesting discussion was generated by this rather goofy manifesto, both on the original site, and here on Typophile. Basically, somebody wants to be able to use more fonts in HTML, and has some confusion about how best to accomplish that - he thinks the type foundries are to blame for the current lack of options, and suggests that fonts need to be liberated from their servitude to their type foundry masters.

My response, which is somewhere in both those lengthy threads, I reproduce again here: