World wide web fonts

on web we could simply start our font stacks with Verdana, pick a couple of reasonable fallbacks, and get IKEA branding effectively for free. Everyone wins.

Or at least that was the plan, but there turned out to be a problem that developed over time.

(From: IKEA’s web fonts - Robin Whittleton)

IKEA happily used Verdana on the web. Until they expanded business across Asia and the Middle East, and found the supported languages of Verdana were lacking.

In this post, Robin Whittleton explains how this situation lead to Noto IKEA.

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast and accessibility specialist from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works with the NL Design System team and is a participant in the Open UI Community Group. Previously, he worked for W3C (WAI), Mozilla, the Dutch government and others as a freelancer. Hidde spoke at 78 events, most recently in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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