If you take the URL for our CSS or fonts and try to link them to your site - or just try to load them directly in your browser - you’ll get no response.

HTTP referrer checking Only authorized domains are allowed to link to fonts.

Our intent is only to discourage casual misuse and to make it clear that taking fonts from Typekit is an explicit and intentional act. Dozens and dozens of these small hurdles would eventually wear them down. Each trench or string of barbed wire was relatively easy to get past, but each one slowed them down and tired them out a little. Armies would put barrier after barrier between them and the enemy. Depth in Defenseĭefense in depth is an old military strategy and an apt analogy for what we’re doing. Can commercial fonts be used in a way that doesn’t turn every website into a free font server? With Typekit, we feel there’s an opportunity to find a middle ground.

Browser release schedules don’t iterate as fast as opinions do, and that requires everyone to experiment in public. While the entertainment industry has wrestled with this issue for a decade, it’s only recently became a concern for foundries and type designers. Recent history has shown repeatedly that attempts to manage digital rights through code have been rejected by consumers and drawn legal fire. If it’s on the web, it can’t be completely protected. The fact is, for something to appear in a browser, it has to be on the web.

When describing Typekit to both web and type designers, we often say that we’re “offering a level of protection that the type industry needs.” Considering all the discussion there has been recently about differing formats and safeguarding fonts, we thought we’d explain our approach in detail.

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