Web fonts?

[Woody44]

The Megafont NOW package includes all fonts in web font versions. Until now, I haven't paid any attention to that but I'm at a point in life where I think I need a web site. So I apparently have 7,500 fonts I can choose from for my web sitem but I have no idea what that means or how to use them.

Is there a user manual for Megafont NOW that explains what web fonts are and how to use them? From what I've been able to learn, I cannot "install" web fonts on my computer to use them in, for example, Microsoft Word, TextMaker, or LibreOffice Writer. So ... what are they and how can I learn how, when, and where to use them?

Thank you.

[lgsl]

Check out the Web font readme (webfont_readme.pdf), all you need is there

[Michael Uplawski]

So ... what are they and how can I learn how, when, and where to use them?

Thank you.

Web-Fonts contain licensing information. They resolve a dilemma when companies who sell copyrighted fonts want to allow their uses on exchangable Media that require that part – or all – of a font be included in the files. Because that means that copyrighted material which may be licensed to the emitting party only, has to be distributed among people who do not hold the same license.

The best known examples are Web-pages and PDF-files which both can embed fonts.

Technically, there is not much of a difference between OTF, TTF or WOF and WOF2. Only the compression rates of the font-files is different. WOF- and WOF2 files are better compressed, but otherwise identical to TTF or OTF. This difference, however, is not significant enough to justify a predilection for those so-called Web-Fonts. Once loaded in a Browser, e.g. upon page-load, there is no way to notice any difference later on.

That so-called “Web-Safety” is a marketing gag although WOF/WOF2 fonts have better be complete and of high quality.., in view of all the claims.

In Summary:
1) you use Web-Fonts (WOF/WOF2), when you want that font and got a license for it.
2) you use other fonts, when you can live with the slightly smaller compression rates and you have made sure that your intended uses of those fonts are legal and/or condoned.

Now everybody shoot at their own discretion, for heaven's sake.
Edit: A more elaborate but older version of this post: https://www.linuxquestions.org/question ... hp?b=38192