From OFLB

SVG Fonts are supported in the W3C spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html).

We should accept SVG Fonts to our Open Font Library. I wonder if we shouldn't also accept all types of fonts, or at least accept an open standard for fonts.

A problem with SVG fonts is that they are unhinted. (SVG 1.2 is likely to include a way of hinting SVG fonts, but there are no details yet.) I think we should accept fonts in any major outline format (Type 1, TrueType and OpenType, at least), as they are still usable with SVG.

Update: it now appears that font hinting will not be added in SVG 1.2.

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