Dave asks, “Why should fonts be like Wikipedia?” He makes sensible points but doesn’t answer the question. Here’s why fonts should be like Wikipedia: so that random 9-year-olds can edit the source to the letter e so that it looks like the letters “ur ghey” and every document in the world is adjusted accordingly - for if fonts were truly like Wikipedia they’d be hosted on one single central repository and accessed on-demand.

Let’s face it, that’s the end game for software as a service. When your OS is online, your fonts are online, and if you don’t pay your monthly fees, your documents get reverted to the Lite® trial version (don’t worry, you can still see the consonants…).