April 19, 1996 This document contains a high-level proposal for
embedding fonts in HTML documents on the World Wide Web. Clients
interact with platform-specific services (called "embedding
services" in this document) that provide much of the embedding
functionality. The embedding services used by the clients
perform the following functions: The Embedding Services create
an embedded font structure from a specified font or fonts. The
font structure has a known length and stream identifier, which
the clients use to package the structure appropriately. Rather
than actually embed a font structure in an HTML document, we
propose that clients create a separate file to contain the
embedded font or fonts, perhaps called a .FONT file, with its
own URL. This file would have the following MIME specification:
An HTML document would contain a reference to the associated
font file, similar to the way graphics or other objects are
referenced within a web document. We propose the tag <FONT FILE>
to associate fonts with a web