Embedded OpenType (EOT)

(upbeat music) - [Narrator] While designers and developers like me were busy swapping out text with images of texts, the Microsoft internet Explorer team introduced a new solution to the old web fonts problem, a file format called Embedded OpenType or EOT. Microsoft like everyone else wanted custom fonts on the web and they knew the font foundries, the companies that actually make the fonts did not like this idea, because once a font is made available to a browser, the user of that browser can just download that font onto their computer, and use it without paying a licensing fee. And if you've ever bought a font, you know that licensing fees can be quite steep. As one font foundry put it. - Adding web fonts to a page is effectively illegal distribution and software piracy. - Yeah, definitely seems like a non-starter. To solve this problem, Microsoft created EOT, a font format with built-in digital rights management or DRM…