Gloriously available for @font-face embedding, TeeFranklin by Suomi Type Foundry at Fontspring is a family of 14 weights/styles that may be perfect when you want to offer something a tad different from Helvetica and Franklin while retaining many of the qualities that make those fonts great.

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8 Responses to “Friday Font: TeeFranklin”

1. 
   Arlen said on 2 April 2010 at 8:54 am:

   Just curious about your threshold for “gloriously available.” The license says I can only use this font for @font-face embedding if I first remove every glyph from the font that is not absolutely required to display the website. Yet nowhere do I find them referencing a tool for me to use that readily allows me to perform this surgery. Doesn’t that make it impossible for me to abide by the @font-face license provisions, rendering the whole thing moot?

   There’s a second provision in the license that gives me pause, though it’s not such a deal-killer as the one I mention above. I have to ensure the version of the font I embed is not the “real” font. There’s an unspoken implication in this that the embeddable version will be of lesser quality, perhaps optimized for low-res devices such as the current crop of monitors, which will be apparent if anyone dares to print the web page. Like I said, this isn’t really the deal-killer the first problem is, but still, it makes me cringe a bit.

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   Richard Fink said on 2 April 2010 at 9:11 am:

   Good catch. The visual quality of Tee Franklin looks very good. No erratic spacing like you see a lot with free fonts. Nice and even.
   Well crafted and worth the money, it looks like.
   Rich

3. 
   Erik said on 2 April 2010 at 9:37 am:

   Arlen,

   Check out fontsquirrel.com for the subsetting capability you’re referring to.

4. 
   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 2 April 2010 at 2:35 pm:

   Arlen:

   Erik beat me to it. The @Font-Face Generator at Fontsquirrel, which I’ve written about elsewhere, will convert the font to EOT, WOFF, and TrueType, and will do the subsetting you need.

5. 
   Well, this is not a free font. said on 2 April 2010 at 7:37 pm:

   Tee Franklin is a font I made, and if you want to use it, you should pay for it.

6. 
   Fontspring said on 2 April 2010 at 7:52 pm:

   Obviously there is some confusion around our webfonts. When you purchase the TeeFranklin webfont from us, we provide a @font-face package that meets the terms of the license already. You don’t have to do anything but install it in your site. The default character set is MacRoman which will cover most western languages. Does this help?

7. 
   Jeffrey Zeldman said on 2 April 2010 at 9:36 pm:

   Thanks, Fontspring, this helps a lot! As there is a lot of confusion generally about web font licenses (as with all things web font), you might want to clarify matters a tad on the site and in the licensing language. Thanks for listening and thanks for providing great fonts and very reasonably priced @font-face licenses. You are great for doing so.

8. 
   Richard Bateman said on 3 April 2010 at 5:50 am:

   I’m such a huge fan of this font and others like it. A great service is being provided, so thanks!

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