Webfonts
It's a bit late for this year, but while building blurbs and such for the Arcanacon website, I discovered Fontsquirrel. It has a large repository of fonts that can be safely used on the web (by a webmaster who knows the correct techniques for embedding fonts in a web page). Arcanacon uses a one-blurb-to-a-page style so that writers can make ( Read more... )
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I've never had a problem with blurb formatting at Pheno.
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2008, and I deliberately avoided the fight I wouldn't win (it is their con, so their decision) in 2009 but would have preferred access to an accent font then too. They tend to use a second font (large, coloured and bolded) for headings, but didn't want me to use that font (regular-size, black and not bolded) in the body. I can see you got to use the header font at the bottom of your Rockband blurb in 2009, but not really for body-text and still styled to match typical headers.
They have also been willing to use different fonts in images as game titles. (If I'd thought of that in time, I could have done that this year - I found the fonts used in most White Wolf games, and used some of them in the materials for the games. But I think the website was already up by the time I found those fonts.) But they were quite resistant to using a second font to set out a piece of text in the body of a blurb. So, things like a typewriter font or a calligraphic or script font would seem to be right out. I haven't been game to push them on the issue ( ... )
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I was more talking around 2000-2003...
Mind you, back then they were producing paper booklets as well, so formatting had to be able to survive being grey-scaled.
I don't really consider Rockstar to be one of "my games" to be honest... I didn't even consider those blurbs when I was thinking about game submissions.
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2002-2003 was earlier than I was regularly attending Pheno. I could only travel so many times a year. It's easier now that I'm living in Melbourne, so no travel for Arc and Conquest.
Assuming the archiving process hasn't done nasty things to it, your 2002 blurb has very little in the way of formatting for the website. Mind you, there wasn't that much support from the technology back then - this was before Firefox, Chrome and Safari, and Internet Explorer was up to version 6 (which admittedly sucked a lot less than what came before it). Font embedding only worked in IE, and it was dubious in both quality and legality. I wouldn't be surprised if Pheno supported a much wider range of formatting options in the booklets than on the web back then.
Today, though, there's so much you can do with formatting for a website. We can have full-colour blurbs, and we aren't restricted to a certain length. (Though, rambling is bad - don't write the way I write in these comments.) We can add extra info after the blurb - character lists, frex. Fancy fonts ( ... )
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