Not always about type.

It’s true. With this much weight behind the .webfont proposal (2.1), it has to should be taken seriously.

The foundries listed below have expressed their support for the WebOTF proposal. The term “support” is understood to be general approval of the proposal and its intentions, not an exclusive commitment to it, or a formal endorsement of it.

Update: Tal Leming and Erik van Blokland, along with the help of Jonathan Kew (Mozilla), have written an updated proposal and re-christened the format, WebOTF. Read the new proposal. Until I hear back from all foundries, only those foundries in italic have stated their support of this new updated format.

1. Adobe
2. Alphabet Fonts
3. Bold Monday
4. Carter & Cone Type Inc.
5. Chank Fonts
6. Christian Schwartz / Commercial Type
7. Emigre
8. Erik Spiekermann, Founder of FontFont & FontShop
9. Exljbris Font Foundry
10. Feliciano Type Foundry
11. FontFont
12. Fonthead
13. Fontsmith
14. Fountain
15. Gerard Unger
16. Hoefler & Frere-Jones
17. House Industries
18. IHOF
19. Incipit
20. Incubator
21. ITC Fonts
22. Jeremy Tankard Typography
23. John Downer
24. KLTF
25. Kombinat-Typefounders
26. Kris Sowersby / Klim Type Foundry
27. Lanston Type
28. Letterror
29. Linotype
30. Mac Rhino Fonts
31. Mark Simonson Studio
32. Monotype
33. Mota Italic
34. Nicolas Massi
35. Optimo
36. Opto / Jean-Baptiste Levée
37. Outras Fontes
38. P22 Type Foundry
39. Primetype
40. Process Type Foundry
41. Psy/Ops
42. Rimmer Type Foundry
43. Sherwood Type Col.
44. Steve Mehallo
45. Stone Type Foundry
46. Sudtipos
47. Thirstype
48. TypeTogether
49. Type Supply
50. Typofonderie
51. Typotheque
52. Underware
53. Village
54. 1919 Type Foundry

John Gruber supports it too. TypeKit also likes the idea of it.

Based on what I understand, I am biased toward WOFF. But I should mention there is another format, in addition to WOFF, also garnering support for EOT Lite as another format being considered.

[Note: This is an evolving post. As new foundries are known to support it I will add them.]