{"id":1474,"date":"2011-09-11T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ukoln.ac.uk\/ukolndev\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2013-06-08T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T13:53:09","slug":"webfont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/2011\/09\/11\/webfont\/","title":{"rendered":"WebFont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Font support in browsers has always been a bit hit and miss. While support is improving, the only real way to have nice crisp fonts, particularly in the larger sizes, is to alias your own images in your\u00a0graphics\u00a0editor of choice and embed them. This is very time consuming. For this reason I created WebFont that mimics many paid services and allows inclusion of fonts on a page by using a dynamic url. It can be embedded into existing projects or run as a standalone service.<br \/>\n[box type=&#8221;shadow&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/ukoln\/webfont\/src\" target=\"_blank\">View the source at bitbucket<\/a>[\/box]<\/p>\n<p>This snippet is used to fetch the &#8216;152&#8217; on the RepUK homepage.<\/p>\n<pre><img alt=\"\" src=\".\/fontServe\/constani\/180\/ffffff\/70\/152\" \/><\/pre>\n<p>As this is updated dynamically it is something that would be impossible to recreate by any other means.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1479\" title=\"repuk\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/repuk.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Font support in browsers has always been a bit hit and miss. While support is improving, the only real way to have nice crisp fonts, particularly in the larger sizes, is to alias your own images in your\u00a0graphics\u00a0editor of choice and embed them. This is very time consuming. For this reason I created WebFont that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[147,116,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emmatonkin.com\/ukolndev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}