It takes a lot to please someone as pig-headedly obsessed about the intricate details of design as myself (incase you hadn’t guessed who I was referring to).
And actually, the title is totally deceptive and misleading, but I think you’ll forgive me.
Myriad Pro hasn’t gone opensource at all. Merely, the world’s most impressive OFT rip-off has been discovered and is free for you to use commercially, embed on your site, in your designs, call via CSS3’s wonderful @font-face tag, with JavaScript text-replacers and all manner of design-filled geekery goodnessnessness.
Of course, you could download Myriad Pro of any number of torrent sites, or just buy Photoshop CS4 (which I think it’s bundled with if memory serves), but when it comes to embedding fonts on the web these days, the last thing you want is to be slapped with a lawsuit, just because you tried to sexify your website by using a half-decent font.
Myriad Pro – The Blessed Original (with damn stingy licensing)
Vegur – The Blatant Ripoff (with totally lovely licensing… or lack thereof – @font-face for the win)
How we love you, Vegur.
Keep kickin’ AYSE.
7 Responses
Nice, very useful post!!
I will try this! Thanks a lot!
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Love that font. Wasn’t aware of Vegur so thanks very much for sharing, I will download it now!
Thanks for the helpful recommendation, I had been looking for a license free font similar to Myriad Pro for some time now!
haha you have tricked me to use Vegur
Thanks though, great tip
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