This page contains materials used by the W3C Fonts Working Group. It is accessible to W3C members only. The group was formed at the W3C Printing Workshop of 25 April 1996. It first physically met on 17 June 1996 at Mountain View, CA , USA (minutes). The group conducts it's business primarily by email: archives of the mailing list w3c-fonts-wg@w3.org are available.
This will contain the design criteria used by the group, a description of the terminology used, and some example scenarios illustrating the use of Web Fonts. It serves as introduction and background to the other two documents.
This will contain a precise description of the information which can be used to define a font. This information may be used to match against locally installed fonts, to synthesize faux fonts, to generate requests for a remote font synthesis server, or to download fonts over the Web in a variety of formats. This document is not specific to CSS/HTML, but applies equally to other media.
This is a concrete binding of the information in the Font Definition specification onto CSS-1 stylesheets. This allows HTML documents to use Web Fonts by including or referencing a stylesheet. It allows remote printing services to request fonts for printing (possibly in a different format from those used online, and possibly from a different stylesheet). This document is an extension of the existing CSS-1 font properties.
Other concrete bindings, for example to VRML 2.0 nodes, to a Java API, or to CGM Application Structures are also possible. The Font Working Group has not commited to producing such documents at this time.
These documents have been produced by the Working Group in the process of creating the three products listed above:
These documents served as formative influences, inspiration, or discussion documents: