WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C's journey of fonts on the web

# Summary The W3C marked the 27th anniversary of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) 1.0's 2010 release, reflecting on decades of work to standardize fonts on the web. Though @font-face was standardized in the late 1990s, web fonts remained largely unused for over a decade due to licensing concerns and disagreements over digital rights protection between browser vendors and typographers. The breakthrough came in 2009 when Mozilla's Jonathan Kew proposed the simple ZOT format and typographers Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland proposed .webfont, both avoiding encryption in favor of transparent licensing information that allowed developers to discover font sources.