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Betfair are quite unlike most bookmakers or sports books on the Internet. They are not oddsmakers, nor do they earn their income off customer losses. Instead, they are a sports betting exchange, a matchmaker of sorts, who bring together bettors on either side of a wager and make their profits from commissions on winnings.
In just ten years, Betfair has gone from pioneering the Internets first successful betting exchange to ranking as the worlds largest international online sports betting provider. The company now has more than three million registered customers. It processes over five million transactions a day.
Technology has been the force behind this meteoric rise, but what sets Betfair apart from online bookmakers is their ability to offer an array of markets and odds that far outpace their competitors. If customers dont see a bet they wish to back, they can lay odds on the opposite side to attract a wager. In essence, this makes betting on just about anything possible. Complementing the sports wagering options are separate sections for horse racing, casino gaming, exchange games, arcade games, and poker.
The software applications used by the Betfair sports betting exchange are proprietary, licensed in the United Kingdom and Tasmania. English is the primary language on the web site, with five additional European languages supported. Deposits can be made in ten separate currencies, but the basic unit employed for wagering is the British Pound Sterling.
It may only have been founded in 1999 but Betfair has easily established itself as one of the major players. Press releases and industry tittle-tattle are not always to be believed but the numbers that Betfair talk in deserves to be heard. Claiming to be the UKs biggest online betting firm and the worlds largest betting exchange, Betfair states they have over 1 million clients. An exchange has the benefit of offering improved odds if you can find someone willing to take your bet but is Betfair really deserving of the status it is supposedly held in?
It is very rare for a new face to make itself known in the world of sports gambling in the UK, dominated as the industry is by the Big 3 (Ladbrokes, William Hill, and Coral). A handful of sites have managed to push their way into the market, with Bet365 amongst them. Rare as that success is, however, it is even rarer for a company to put a whole new spin on the idea of sports gambling, which is exactly what Betfair has done with their strictly online operations. Lets take a look to see if its somewhere worth taking your money to.
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With regards to the sports on offer at Betfair, there is a full selection and anything you want to bet on will be there. Not only that but all the additional events that you would expect for a full season or in-play can be found here, all with odds that can be determined by whatever someone is willing to wager against. You also cant argue with a betting site that allows you to bet on a sport that you havent even heard of. The Petola market had us searching online and it turns out there are a few variations on the game but it is a court sport played with a ball and a racquet, bat or a persons hand. So if you feel inclined to place a wager on a sport like this, then this is definitely the site to be on.
As is the trend these days, there is also a full selection of casino, poker and fun games to try your hand at. Being an exchange there is a slight twist and games like Hi-Lo sees the player betting on how a computer "player" will perform, as opposed to playing the game themselves. Normal service is resumed for games like Final Score or Blackjack where the user takes the more traditional role. In addition to these games, there is a Zero Lounge available also which shows the best odds available.
Of course, betting on this site is unique because its up to the punter to make the odds. Youll see the bets listed, and if you want to take one then you can feel free. If you think you can do a better job, then set up odds of your own. It is important to note that on Betfair, you dont have to take a team to win a game; you can also lay a team to lose! Thats one of the hallmarks of this original concept in sports betting.
All of the worlds major sports are covered. An entire section of the web site devoted exclusively to football, including league play from Argentina to the Ukraine, all of the big cup matches, and international friendlies. Live betting is available in real time as matches progress, too.
Also listed are markets for American football, Aussie Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union, ice hockey, basketball, baseball, cricket, and more team sports. Individual competitions that can be bet on range from tennis and boxing to golf and motor sports, to name but a few.
Horse racing is well covered at Betfair, too, with special emphasis on racecourses in Great Britain and Ireland. Betfair Multiples provide a way to create racing accumulator bets. Those who enjoy betting via the Tote can do so from the web site using their Betfair wallets as well.
In addition to this, there is also Tradefair which allows people to bet on financial markets.
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One promo only from Betfair, but it is a juicy one. Deposit £25 and you will be able to recoup your bet if the first wager you place is a losing one (up to £25). Very unique offer from a very unique site.
In order to qualify, the registration code BTE111 must be entered when signing up. After that, any first wager that is made up to £25, win or lose, will be matched by the deposit of bonus cash equal to the amount wagered. Certain restrictions may apply.
For new customers based in the U.K. only, using the code VTT300 will increase the bonus to £30. However, it will apply like insurance, covering just losing wagers, not winning ones.
Special Promotions
Those who enjoy wagering at Betfair can take advantage of a number of ongoing promotions. One of them is a luck draw called Prize Mountain, offering all kinds of merchandise up for grabs, including sports gear, electronics, apparel, and more. Points earned before 1 November, 2011 qualify for drawing entriesthe more points, the more entries and the more opportunities to win.
Another points-based promotion is the Fish & Chips $70,000 Points Race on Betfair Poker. Prizes include a $1,500 Betfair Poker LIVE! London package for the top six finishers in addition to the $8,000 first place prize money. Anyone landing in the top 100 on the leader board wins a share of $60,000 in cash prizes.
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Betfair go the extra distance in spreading the word about their site and ensuring people know what they are doing on it. They also offer their service on your mobile phone, live scores and results, a Labs site to showcase some the ideas and developments they have in production, live football, tennis and horseracing and many other features. Betfair seem to provide everything is really needed and as long as you can get your head around the exchange system, there is no doubt that Betfair does live up to the hype it generates.
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The Betfair Helpdesk and Telephone Betting lines are manned 24/7 by English speaking brokers and Helpdesk staff. For most other languages, bilingual representatives are available between 9am and 5:30pm (GMT), seven days a week. For Chinese clients, the hours are from 3pm to 5am Beijing time, in both Mandarin and Cantonese.
Any questions that customers have can be answered most easily via email. Every attempt is made to answer enquiries within four hours during Helpdesk hours. Existing Betfair account holder are requested to include their usernames in all correspondence.
All wagers made on the web site are matched by other customers, not by Betfair itself. The company knows who backs every bet made, but this information is maintained in strict confidence. Those making the wagers never know who they are betting against. In fact, there may be any number of bettors matching a single wager. For absolute privacy, Betfair have invested in a world-class Information Security Management System, which has received with ISO-27001 certification.
Should any betting or gaming dispute occur with regard to a Betfair product or market, Helpdesk operators will do their utmost to provide resolution satisfactory to all parities involved. Should their response be found unsatisfactory, customers have recourse to arbitration through the Independent Betting Adjudication Service (IBAS) as an independent third party.
can I be a member to bet.if yes than Gide me how became a member. thx
I want to join
i have placed bet and used code when signin up and havent got my free bet ? any idea as to why?
can i play from Bangladesh on betfair
I have just opened a new account with £10 do you not offer any promotions where you match the amount is deposited. Just asking as most of the other online bookmakers offer this promotion.
how i open a/c in betfair
what is the minimum deposit to open an account.
I signed up last night, deposited and staked £25, do i get this back as part of the `bet 25` offer?
Unfortunately we have no control over the corenuits allowed access to Betfair Mobile apps. This is a decision Betfair have taken, and hopefully as their Mobile customer base increases they will increase the number of allowed corenuits.
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how do I open an account.
I would like to open an account today. Thank you, Davie.
I believe betfair, like high-street bookies do all they can to discourage consistant winners. Trading on betfair is no longer viable, as they charge 60$ commission for those who make a profit?
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From Captain's Quarters, we learn that Hamas is threatening to attack more civilian targets. This is not a departure from the modus operandi of Hamas, merely a threat to escalate.
Hamas has threatened to retaliate for Israel's response to ongoing Palestinian provocations by committing war crimes. The spokesman for the putative political party's terrorist wing stated that Hamas will attack schools and hospitals unless Israel unconditionally removes itself from Gaza.
Kidnappings are not self-defensive acts. Hostage takings are not self-defensive acts. Targeting civilians intentionally can in no way be construed as a defensive act.
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My displeasure with the foolishness of government is never ending.
It seems the state was displeased with a rash of tots running around with odd, creative and foreign names, so it decided to issue a reminder of what's considered appropriate and what isn't.
I guess now that the Mexican government has solved serious problems like crime, poverty and pollution it is focused on minor problems like what baby names are appropriate.
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Even though Donald R. Matthews put his sprawling new residence in the heart of rice country, he is no farmer. He is a 67-year-old asphalt contractor who wanted to build a dream house for his wife of 40 years.
Yet under a federal agriculture program approved by Congress, his 18-acre suburban lot receives about $1,300 in annual "direct payments," because years ago the land was used to grow rice.
Matthews is not alone. Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The Washington Post.
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Hammer of Truth is talking about a new radio ad asking Americans why our political leaders get away with marijauna use while average Americans go to jail for the same thing.
WASHINGTON D.C. — A potentially controversial new ad campaign from the Marijuana Policy Project names prominent public officials, including President George W. Bush, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Vice President Al Gore, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as having admitted to using marijuana. The ad then asks, "Is it fair to arrest three quarters of a million people a year for doing what presidents and a Supreme Court justice have done?â€
Anyone who has visited this blog more than once knows I think the Drug War is a travesty of justice and spittle in the eye of freedom. Adults own their own bodies, or they should in a free country. It's time to focus on anti-drug education. Ruining addicts' lives by turning them into violent animals in jail isn't helping America in any way shape or form.
Rich people get more sleep; have more stress
Boortz references a study that says rich people get more sleep. The study also revealed that while the rich sleep more, poor people spend more of their time engaged in passive leisure activities. Maybe we need a government program to ensure that this mess gets balanced out.
We'll need a catchy alphabet soup acronym for the new department. Some of my suggestions include:
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- TMA – Time Management Agency
- OLT – Office of Leisure Time
It's quite obvious that we need balance between the rich and the poor in how people spend their free time.


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David Armstrong Reflects On Intimacy With the Subjects of His New Show
<span style="font-style: italic;">Artist and photographer David Armstrong's latest exhibition, Mad About the Boy, at New York's Half Gallery, collects photographs of four of his favorite male subjects. Intrigued, NOWNESS gave Armstrong a call at his home-studio in Brooklyn (an enormous house strewn with props, costumes and a giant matrioshka doll) and asked to him to tell us more about each sitter—see their photographs here.
I moved to New York in 1977. And Kevin and I hooked up that first fall that I was here. I actually met him, believe it or not, in the back room of the Anvil, one of the sex bars at the time. Which proves that you can actually find true love in those places. We ended up being together for four years. He was absolutely beautiful, and just so sweet. He asked me if I wanted to go back to his house. And it was funny, because he was a kept boy. He took me back to this gorgeous townhouse on St Luke's place. The guy he lived with was Jim Goode, then the editor of Penthouse. The night before Kevin moved in with me, which was about six months later, Jim came over. It was like he was giving away his daughter in marriage. We really had a lot of fun together, Kevin and I. Kevin was the only boyfriend that I've ever had that I broke up with, and the only one that I realized I should not have.
Kevin went to Paris in 1979 for six months because he wanted to model, and I didn't break up with him then, but the day Kevin left for Paris, Chris moved into the house. Chris was from Paris. He was absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. I can remember opening the door to the house when he first came round. I practically fainted. The whole Mudd Club scene was going on pretty strong then, so we were involved with that, and we were getting into drugs quite a bit. Really Chris was kind of nihilistic, I would say, but he was a really great friend. I lived with him in New York, Paris and Provincetown—I'd got a traveling fellowship and had a lot of money. On his wrist he had a tattoo, which he did himself, which says "Maman." He was really close to his mother. When I lived with him in Paris we went to his parents every Sunday for dinner. In the morning he would always get into bed with his mother, which for me was peculiar, but it was always perfectly natural for them.
If there were 100 boys in the room, Boyd's the only one you'd see. In the beginning of 2000, I had a couple of shows in Paris. I'd never done anything in fashion before, period. But someone called me from the Dior atelier and asked me if I wanted to do Hedi Slimane's portrait. I didn't even know who he was, but he came to my house, and spent Sunday doing the picture, and I really liked him. The next year I came to Dior for the week before the men's show and Jimmy Paul the hairdresser, who's an old friend of mine, was there. And Boyd was in the room, and Jimmy told me Hedi was thinking of using him as the exclusive for the campaign. Boyd was so shy he could barely even talk. In those years I started doing a lot of fashion, and if ever there was a casting, I'd recommend Boyd. We started talking and I started to see things he'd been doing, little films and things like that. I gave him a camera and we started to be friends. I really probably photographed him more than anyone, first in situations to do with fashion, then not. He would always hang out here—it's a big house, there's always a lot of people here. He lives here now.
The thing with Eric was that I never had a personal relationship with him in the way that I did with any of the others. An agency sent him over for a test, he showed up and I really got a kick out of him. At the time of Kevin and Chris I was more or less their peer, I was two or three years older. It's quite different when you're old enough to be their father or grandfather. I really liked Eric at the time because he was that borderline between beautiful and hideous. Everything was so accentuated. At that point I was coming back to doing one-on-one portraits—I don't like a lot of people around when I'm doing stuff. And then there was a lot of sexual energy sublimated into the pictures. It's not like you're going to have sex with them, it's not a lead up to that, but you're worshiping their beauty. And that's a strange territory to navigate.


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Residents of Sandwich, Mashpee, Bourne, and Falmouth came out to Sandwich High School on Saturday morning to properly dispose of their hazardous waste materials. Michael S. Maguire of Dennis headed up Saturday's operation, which by 9 AM already saw cars lining up to the parking lot entrance.
This collection was one of 23 collections held on Cape Cod every year designed to eliminate the amount of hazardous material being disposed of incorrectly, such as being dumped onto the lawn. Doing this has serious consequences for the local environment.
"This concept is very simple," Mr. Maguire said. "If you take a gallon of gasoline and dump it out into your backyard, a portion of that is going to end up in our drinking water."
Mr. Maguire and his team are joined by workers from PSC, an environmental and industrial services company from Rhode Island, to sort and dispose of the waste that comes through the line. Some of the waste will be incinerated while some of it can be re-purposed into energy. About 60 percent of the volume of waste is expected to come from paint, while 15 percent is likely to be pesticides.
Items that are not accepted are non-hazardous materials, radioactive materials, and explosives. "Typically, people have common sense and don't bring those items anyways," Mr. Maguire said. "Generally what you're going to see is what comes out of someone's garage."
However, Mr. Maguire has seen residents bring items such as an 85-gallon drum of DDT and a stun gun. For the stun gun, the resident was referred to the Sandwich police as those are illegal to possess.
In order to allow the process to run smoothly and to collect some data, Kalliope E. Egloff of Mashpee and David M. Quinn of Orleans asked the drivers a series of questions and checked the materials they brought to the collection.
"We only take stuff that they don't take at the transfer station so residents don't end up paying more in their taxes," Ms. Egloff said. Waste disposal is expensive and costs the towns about $11,000 with that cost being divided between the four towns based on the percentage of households per town that dropped off waste.
Despite the cost of disposal, Mr. Quinn stressed why they hold these events. "All these people have a truckload of material. With all of the groundwater issues on the Cape, it's really important to have this option."
It is also important to inform residents of the collections being held. Covanta SEMASS, a resource recovery facility for southeastern Massachusetts, foots a $30,000 bill for fliers to be sent to all Cape Cod residents and businesses. Barnstable County pays for the remaining $5,000 that goes into the flier production.
Barnstable County also pays the wages of any staff working on collection day. Combined with the collections being subsidized out of the tax base, residents are able to bring their waste in for disposal without having to pay a surcharge.
Beyond the hazardous waste collections, Mr. Maguire stressed the importance of upcoming events like the National Prescription Take-Back Day on April 26. "We're not the law, we're environmental. It's important to dispose of medications properly so that they're not being flushed down the toilet and into our groundwater," he said.
"The bottom line is, I understand that it's not on the top of your list to come to a hazardous materials collection on a Saturday, but it makes a big difference," Mr. Maguire said.
With the drinking water on Cape Cod being only about 20 to 40 feet underground, the implications of pouring gasoline on the lawn are dire.
"The Cape's economy is based on a clean environment," Mr. Maguire said. "If we can prevent further contamination, why wouldn't you? It's free."
Saturday's Totals
Number of Participants:
• 347 cars representing waste from 451 households participated
• 327 of the 347 were year-round residents
• 137 of the 347 were first-time participants
• 38 of the 347 brought waste that was left in their house from the previous owners
• 4 small business participated (at their own cost)
Waste Collected:
• 4,525 gallons of waste at a total weight of 20,525 pounds (just over 10 tons)
• 12 fifty-five gallon drums of pesticide
• 6 fifty-five gallon drums of gasoline
• 10 cubic yard boxes of flammable paints and stains
• 7 fifty-five gallon drums of flammable paint sludge
• 8 fifty-five gallon drums of aerosol containers


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Nosh, schmooze, and make business connections at the April 9 meeting of JNET Santa Monica, the Jewish Business Networking Organization's first Westside chapter. It will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. at Kehillat Ma'arav Synagogue, 1715 21st St., Santa Monica, CA 90404.
The featured speakers are JNET members George Guttman, MBA, CFP, of Goodstein Wealth Management, LLC, on "Strategies for Successful Financial and Retirement Planning" and Karen Onifer of CityLights Financial Express Inc. on "Knowledge Is Power: Putting Cash in Your Pocket When You Call 310-FINANCE."
Each attendee will have the opportunity to give a 30-second introduction about their business. In addition, everyone who donates an item for the "Give a Little, Talk a Lot" Drawing will be able to speak for 15 seconds more. The item should be something to be used in the workplace with a retail value of $20 or less.
There is no cost for first-time guests and no reservation is required. JNET is the place to meet other Jewish professionals, a place you can develop personal relationships that may lead to business relationships. We hold our meetings at a synagogue, but there is no religious affiliation required. Come tell us about your business and let us support you!
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Opera hates my web font
So I've wanted to use a condensed, bold Franklin typeface for my site's headlines since, well, forever. So I bought Fontspring's fine Franklin Gothic FS Demi Condensed and licensed it for @font-face use for a mere $2.99, an incomparable value.
It looks great in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, but not so nice in the latest version of Opera, where it resembles the inside-out test monkey in Cronenberg's "The Fly." (Okay, okay, it looks like a ransom note, but the monkey simile was more picturesque.)
And this, my friends, is why Typekit exists. Because even when you find a great font that's optimized for screen display and can be licensed for CSS @font-face use, guess what? There is almost always some glitch or bug somewhere. And Typekit almost always seems to find and work around these bugs. It's the kind of grueling task designers hate dealing with, and Typekit's team loves solving.
If this were a client site, I'd switch to Typekit, or try licensing a different vendor's Franklin, or (if neither of those options proved satisfactory) dump web fonts altogether and use Helvetica backed by Arial instead. But as this is zeldman.com, I'd rather nudge my friends at Opera to look into the problem and fix it. This will make browsing zeldman.com in Opera a somewhat weird experience, but hopefully it will help all Opera users in the long run.
Implementation Notes and Details
- I haven't made an SVG version yet, so the web fonts don't work in iPhone or iPad.
iPhone and iPad see normal weight Helvetica instead of bold Helvetica, because if I leave "font-weight: bold" in the CSS declaration, Firefox double-bolds the font. This is not smart of Firefox.Fixed via technique below.
- In order to match the impact of the previous Helvetica/Arial bold, I boosted the font-size from 25px to 32px. (This also helps smooth the font. Web fonts need more help in this regard than system fonts.)
- Camino ignores @font-face and supports the first system font in the font stack, Helvetica Neue (correctly styled bold).
Update: Problem solved. See Opera Loves My Web Font.
Filed under: Browsers, bugs, State of the Web, The Essentials, Web Design, Web Design History, Web Standards, webfonts, webkit, webtype
42 Responses to "Opera hates my web font"
Matthew Leak said on 11 April 2010 at 12:52 pm:
Have you tried using Cufon? It's the best font replacement tool out there in my opinion.
Ben said on 11 April 2010 at 1:10 pm:
I have run into problems too with Opera and @font-face. It also seems fairly tempermental in which letters it doesn't render properly. Would be interesting to hear if this is the font, or Opera's implimentation of @font-face.
Let's hope it gets sorted with the ever growing popularity of @font-face.
David Sutoyo said on 11 April 2010 at 1:23 pm:
I thought Typekit doesn't work with Opera yet? Then again I may not have been using Typekit correctly :p
xen vps said on 11 April 2010 at 1:23 pm:
Personally I hate IE!
Thomas Hühn said on 11 April 2010 at 1:26 pm:
Correct, no Opera support on Typekit and no hints, when it might be added. :-(
Lydia Mann said on 11 April 2010 at 1:46 pm:
My cold feet regarding diving into web font use grow icy…
alessandro said on 11 April 2010 at 2:19 pm:
if I leave "font-weight: bold" in the CSS declaration, Firefox double-bolds the font.
Dud you try this in the font in the @font-face?
@font-face {
font-family: 'FranklinGothicFSDemiCondensed-1';
font-weight: bold;
src: url(//:) format('no404'), url('FranklinGothic-DemiCd_font1.ttf');
so the browser knows that when you set a font-weight bold it should use the FranklinGothic-DemiCd_font1.ttf font (or any other you choose instead).
alessandro said on 11 April 2010 at 2:21 pm:
if I leave "font-weight: bold" in the CSS declaration, Firefox double-bolds the font.
Did you try this in the @font-face declaration?
@font-face {
font-family: 'FranklinGothicFSDemiCondensed-1';
font-weight: bold;
src: url(//:) format('no404'), url('FranklinGothic-DemiCd_font1.ttf');
so the browser knows that when you set a font-weight bold it should use the FranklinGothic-DemiCd_font1.ttf font (or any other you choose instead).
Josh Vickery said on 11 April 2010 at 2:34 pm:
It looks like Ubuntu 9.10 hates your web font too, though not as much as Opera hates it. In both the packaged Firefox 3.5.9 and Google Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta the capitals render in different sizes at 32px. At 30px and 34px (adjusted using the Google Chrome inspector) they display in the same size. I posted a snap of the different renderings at vickeryj.com/fonts.png
Bennobo said on 11 April 2010 at 2:35 pm:
"Opera is not yet supported due to a bug in their rendering of the CSS font-stack."
I like "not yet". Sounds promising.
Thomas Hühn said on 11 April 2010 at 3:08 pm:
Bennobo, that statement by Typekit was when Opera 10 was just out, I think. Since then we've got 10.50 and a point release.
I haven't seen any updates yet, whether the bug alluded to is fixed. Total silence from Typekit and Opera, it seems.
alessandro said on 11 April 2010 at 3:20 pm:
It is a great pleasure to be useful to the man that is responsible for my passion for web design and development (and for my actual job too).
The problem with Firefox is that if it reads that the font-weight should be bold, it renders the font bolder using its build-in font transformation engine.
I don't know if this is not smart or too smart. The Firefox bold version of the font obviously is different from the real bold version of the font (if one exists), but this behaviour can be useful if you have only one style for a font and want to render bold and italic styles too.
Anyway, I think that there is a common error in many of the auto-generated @font-face stylesheets, also in the great @font-face kit generator of Font Squirrel.
If you have, say, 3 styles for a font (DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSansBold.ttf, DejaVuItalic.ttf), in my opinion you should always use 3 @font-face declarations:
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Sans';
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url('/DejaVuSans.ttf') format('truetype');
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Sans';
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
src: url('DejaVuSansBold.ttf') format('truetype');
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Sans';
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
src: url('DejaVuSansItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
I don't see any reason to do it in other ways (but I have not tested so much the @font-face property).
Bennobo said on 11 April 2010 at 4:01 pm:
Thomas Hühn, Opera will fix that sooner or later thanks to this post of Zeldman. Jon Hicks will do the rest :P
Ingo Chao said on 11 April 2010 at 4:34 pm:
Fx 3.6.3 Mac shows a 3-step change for the headline to appear in its final shape (system first, then FranklinGothic-DemiCd_font1.ttf, then FranklinGothic-DemiCd_font2.ttf). And in Safari 4.0.5, the top image is loaded, then the headline pops up. I think the empty cache situation needs adjustments. How would a big site with slow performance render this, would it show re-flows of the layout as a whole?
Gonzo said on 11 April 2010 at 5:25 pm:
@alessandro, that's exactly the way FontSquirrel supplies the @font-face kit, at least for DejaVu Serif. I am using this font on my blog and have all four @font-face declarations the stylesheet.
alessandro said on 11 April 2010 at 5:42 pm:
No. If you look at the stylesheet.css in the font-face kit of DejaVu Serif downloaded from Font Squirrel, you will not find any
font-weightproperty inside the @font-face declarations. This is the point.
Gonzo said on 11 April 2010 at 6:16 pm:
@alessandro, I just checked, and you're right about the normal weight and style font, but the bold and italic variant all have the corresponding properties:
* This CSS file has been generated by fontsquirrel.com
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Serif';
src: local('DejaVu Serif Book'),
url('fonts/DejaVuSerif.ttf') format('truetype');
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Serif';
src: local('DejaVu Serif Italic'),
url('fonts/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-style: italic;
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Serif';
src: local('DejaVu Serif Bold'),
url('fonts/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVu Serif';
src: local('DejaVu Serif Bold Italic'),
url('fonts/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
Ben said on 11 April 2010 at 7:15 pm:
Just so you know, Android hates your web font too!
alessandro said on 11 April 2010 at 7:17 pm:
This is the beginning of the stylesheet I downloaded from fon squirrell.
/* Generated by Font Squirrel (http://www.fontsquirrel.com) on April 1, 2010 12:40:47 PM America/New_York */
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVuSerifBook';
src: url('DejaVuSerif.eot');
src: local('DejaVu Serif'), local('DejaVuSerif'), url('DejaVuSerif.woff') format('woff'), url('DejaVuSerif.ttf') format('truetype'), url('DejaVuSerif.svg#DejaVuSerif') format('svg');
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVuSerifItalic';
src: url('DejaVuSerif-Italic.eot');
src: local('DejaVu Serif'), local('DejaVuSerif-Italic'), url('DejaVuSerif-Italic.woff') format('woff'), url('DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf') format('truetype'), url('DejaVuSerif-Italic.svg#DejaVuSerif-Italic') format('svg');
@font-face {
font-family: 'DejaVuSerifBold';
src: url('DejaVuSerif-Bold.eot');
src: local('DejaVu Serif'), local('DejaVuSerif-Bold'), url('DejaVuSerif-Bold.woff') format('woff'), url('DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf') format('truetype'), url('DejaVuSerif-Bold.svg#DejaVuSerif-Bold') format('svg');
May be am I looking at the wrong file?
Gonzo said on 12 April 2010 at 1:37 am:
They have changed things a lot since I downloaded the kit few months ago. Added WOFF and SVG and removed font weight and style.
Fontspring said on 12 April 2010 at 8:57 am:
At this point, Fontspring and Typekit have the same problem with Opera. Opera does not use the font stack properly and you end up with a mess. We are considering a few options to fix this. if Opera won't do it, we certainly will try.
@Ben – I assume that the Android browser you used is also Opera-based and not Webkit?
Font Squirrel said on 12 April 2010 at 9:06 am:
@Gonzo, @alessandro – A while back I updated the font-generating engine and that code that added the weight/style part was deleted. In my testing just now, it does indeed work across browsers. I notice here that Opera fails to deliver the correct font for the italic/bold styles and instead fakes it. And oddly if I refresh the page in Opera I lose all the webfonts completely.
I will see about adding that CSS back into the generator. It is somewhat a guessing game as fonts are incredibly inconsistent with the way they're named and put together. And even more so with free fonts. But I'll see what I can do about it!
Alessandro said on 12 April 2010 at 10:28 am:
@Font Squirrel – Thank you for your answer!
I understand that the inconsistence of free fonts can be a big problem for you. Anyway, I think you are doing a great work with free fonts, and your @font-face kit generator is fantastic.
Thank you again for everything.
Jeffrey Veen said on 12 April 2010 at 12:37 pm:
As @Fontsquirrel mentioned above, Opera's inappropriate handling of segmenting and CSS stack fallbacks makes us unable to support that browser with Typekit. We've been working with the engineers there, including Håkon, and we've built a bunch of test pages to help isolate the problem. They've been very responsive, though I haven't had an update for a couple weeks now.
The nice thing, which you point out in your article Jeffrey, is that Typekit users won't have to do anything when Opera comes around. We'll test and deploy, then fonts will start being served to that browser automatically. It's just like when foundries send us new versions of their fonts with improved hints for rendering — we push them out and our customers sites look better. We've done this dozens of times already.
Anyway, we'll get there with Opera ASAP. And Franklin Gothic looks great on your headlines, btw.
Richard Fink said on 12 April 2010 at 4:39 pm:
I just caught up with this post.
First of all, when you are declaring a font-family with more than one member, always add the font-style and font-weight to the @font-face declarations.
(By "font-family" I mean fonts that are declared using the same font-family name.)
Even if it's a one member family, getting into the habit of writing:
is a very good idea. It's unambiguous.
Understand that unless you "declare" which members of the family are normal or italic, or bold or bold and italic, the browser can't possibly know what font to use when you set an HTML element's CSS properties to font-weight:bold or normal / font-style:normal or italic.
font-weight and font-style inside the @font-face declaration have a different meaning than when used outside the declarations.
Outside the declarations they mean: "apply bolding" or "apply italic". Or not.
Inside the @font-face declaration they mean: "This font is the bold member of the family, this font is the italic member of the family, etc…"
Now…. Opera doesn't seem to be having any problem with the demo page at Fontsquirrel for this font, so I'm puzzled as to what's going on here.
In my last go-around with the Opera team over @font-face the only problem I saw was lack of synthesized bold and italic.
Checkin' it out….
Richard Fink said on 12 April 2010 at 6:55 pm:
I've checked everything out. I know what the problems are here.
I went and bought the entire Franklin set so I could recreate the whole process you went through, too.
I had no idea that FontSpring was selling split TTF files.
Do-it-yourself DRM. I had no idea.
It really works, too. It took me all of eight minutes to download the two font files from your site and recombine them into a single file.
Kiss optimization goodbye. With this approach you will always have two http requests when there should be only one. If it was a font-family of regular, italic, bold, and bold italic, you would have eight http requests and I imagine the Flash Of Unstyled Text would look pretty wild on the first page load.
Oh, yes, Opera should handle the fallback properly and recombine the two fonts, character by character, on the fly. (That sounds nice and efficient, doesn't it?)
But that really seems besides the point to me.
If licensing restraints only allow you to use a part of what the standard describes and allows, does that entitle somebody to say their approach is "standards compliant"?
Philip Renich said on 12 April 2010 at 6:59 pm:
Don't forget in all of your @font-face declarations that IE buggers out with "style linking." According to Tim's Nice Web Type How to Use CSS Font-Face article, putting font-weight or font-style in the @font-face declaration will cause IE to completely ignore it.
That sucks.
Instead you declare individual font-family names. In the article scroll down to the heading "It Takes Two, Baby"
I haven't played around with this explicitly to test it. Anyone have experience with style-linking? It's definitely a nicer and easier way to do things.
Alessandro said on 13 April 2010 at 5:24 am:
@Richard Fink
I went and bought the entire Franklin set so I could recreate the whole process you went through, too.
Richard, are you ok?
Ben said on 13 April 2010 at 9:08 am:
@Fontspring nope, I'm using the stock standard Webkit browser that comes with Android 1.6 (Donut).
No idea if this issue goes away with Android 2/2.1, might want to check that out. Most of us here in Australia are stuck on 1.6 until Vodafone starts playing nice :(
Scott Kellum said on 13 April 2010 at 9:17 am:
Be careful when setting SVG fonts in Opera. It will strip letter spacing and leave big gaps in your text… I am suprised Opera made such a big deal about web fonts on its release of version 10, it is incredibly poorly implemented…
I don't know if you have tried my webfnt method but it might help get it working across all browsers. Proper weight support is also implemented now.
Scott Kellum said on 13 April 2010 at 9:25 am:
@ben @Fontspring
The Android Browser removes @font-face support in v2.0. Enjoy your web font goodness while you have it! Even if it doesn't load properly.
Fontspring said on 13 April 2010 at 9:56 am:
Thank you for the critical feedback. When we launched this seemed a reasonable tradeoff in order to mildly protect the foundry's IP. Obviously FOUT, http requests, and Opera compatibility are making that direction less and less a good option. Work is already underway to eliminate the double font. I've already been able to create asingle working webfont that will not install on a desktop.
@zeldman – I'd be happy to provide you with this new version for testing if you are interested.
Sylvain Galineau said on 13 April 2010 at 10:04 am:
TypeKit also splits fonts.
Richard Fink said on 13 April 2010 at 2:23 pm:
I'm quite OK!
This will explain my deep interest:
Web fonts are a big part of my beat. Exasperating work, but somebody's got to do it. ;)
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Categories > Movies > Underworld > Hybrid Harry
Tanis4 Reviews
What happens when Harry Potter is saved by Lucian? What about when he becomes a Hybrid?
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(#) Skoell 2006-11-19 06:58:01 AMfinally a new chapter! puuuh...i nearly thought you were dead or something...
well james was an auror, wasn't he? maybe he had to go on a mission because of that or because of an order mission to gather information? maybe some vamps were on voldie's side and they thought they could find something out about them through questioning an isolated vampire?
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(#) EbonyRiddle 2006-12-30 07:30:34 PMwell you said harry already had vamp and lycan blood James could like be Tanis son or something like that
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(#) LDA 2008-11-23 11:00:35 PMTanis could be a squib ancestor of Harry's, James went to his family vaults after his folks died and found that the man was still alive thanks to the family tapistry or some such...
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(#) LDA 2009-03-28 08:46:29 PMAre you ever going to update or haveyou quit writing all together?