Gothic Medieval font that you can embed With Cufón?

Question

Hey,

I'm looking for a font in Gothic Medieval style that I can embed with Cufón. I tried with the Cloister Black .ttf file but the generator responded with:

The file you uploaded could not be converted. Currently only TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF), Printer Font Binary (PFB) and PostScript fonts are supported.

If you're sure the font is valid, it is likely that the author of the font has decided to not allow modification and/or embedding of the font. This can happen quite often especially with "freeware" TrueType fonts. You must contact the author of the font for a less restricted version.

Answer 1

Working for 12 years in the printing industry, I ran into problems with customer fonts that wouldn't embed in PDF documents, which was required for our workflow. As it turns out, a lot of fonts are "freeware" and simply have badly formed portions, missing glyphs, etc. Also, font authors can sometimes mistakenly leave the tags enabled that prohibit embedding or printing, etc.

The best course of action would be to contact the publisher or author of the font to see anything can be done. (Perhaps embedding was not meant to be denied.)

There are tools like ttfpatch that can change the tags inside TTF fonts, but like many things, you could be violating a copyright if you use it incorrectly.

Answer 2

These are all free Blackletter fonts, and the site's "@font-face Kit Generator" supports Cufon utility as well:

Font Squirrel Blackletter Fonts

@font-face kit generator