Fontlab releases Photofont WebReady for Mac OS X
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Dec 3, 2008 at 7:00pm
Fontlab has released Photofont Webready, a Mac OS X compatible typography product for web designers. The folks at Fontlab say that web page designers have struggled with the tradeoff between searchability and good typography since the beginning of the Internet.
“If you wanted good typography you had to use bitmaps,” says Ted Harrison of Fontlab. “But if you wanted your headlines indexed by the search engines you had to use generic vector fonts. WebReady solves this problem by creating ‘Flash text’ for web pages. The headlines look like bitmaps, but they act like hypertext.”
WebReady works with any TrueType or Type 1 font. It also works with photofonts, bitmap fonts that can have colors, textures, grayscale and transparency. WebReady makes them work as hypertext.
WebReady costs US$79.95 for a single-user license. A demo is available for download.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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