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> a web without typography freedom is not a web I want, or would value.

You wouldn't value a web without typographic freedom? That sounds pretty extreme. Are you a designer for whom the web is canvas, rather than a non-designer for whom the web is primarily a source of information?

I've been using the web for twenty years, and typographic freedom is fairly low on my list of priorities. But I'm not a designer.

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I think in hast, my wording wasn't as specific as it should have been. My point is: I don't value the opinion that it is not important. Not when you see what happens without it. It's pure fallacy to suggest that web fonts are the problem - when the pressure should be on finding a creative way to resolve the issue (i.e. just display the next available in the font-family list until downloading is complete, or read-ahead meta data that includes kerning, width, height and size, so the layout can modulate well).

The choice of type conveys a lot about a brand, lets not forget that.

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