Font without a counter-/counting pixel

andreastuart

A potential client is requesting one of my old fonts “without a counter-/counting pixel”. As I have grown quite rusty with font-making, I was wondering what this means exactly, and what software is capable of making such kind of font?

Any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks!

Florian Hardwig

This sounds as if it is not about type design/font engineering, but rather about webfont hosting. Some providers require a counting mechanism (typically a script rather than a pixel*), to keep track of the licensed pageviews. Your client seems to want a webfont with unlimited pageviews, and/or no external reporting on the visitor statistics.
*See also https://en.onpage.org/wiki/Tracking_Pixel

andreastuart

Thanks so much for this, Florian!

Jackson Showalter-Cavanaugh

Is anyone requiring this with their self-hosted webfonts?

Jack Jennings

MyFonts does. Their supplied CSS actually states that the fonts will not work if the tracking line isn't included.