[jrochkind1]

Maybe, but i'm excited by http://www.typography.com/cloud/the-fonts/, where they mention that all their fonts have: real small caps; old-style (text) figures; full range of individually drawn (not interpolated) weights; ligatures; even some old-style non-lining symbols like dollar signs.

If there are free web fonts that have all those, they are hard to find. (I don't even know how to use old-style figures ordinarily, although I'm not an expert in these things. But they imply that they have some custom (probably hacky cause that's what it would take) solution to some special glyphs "Cloud-typography includes tools for implementing advanced typographic features, and delivering them even to browsers that aren't designed to support advanced typography"; )

But yeah, clearly the market is people who care about things like in that list. Some of which are _very_ rarely seen on the web right now; if this leads to them being seen on the web more, it may increase the number of people who know what a 'non-lining figure' is, and then increase the market of people who want such things. And hopefully increase the number of free fonts that have em too (although you can have all those features and still be a poorly-designed font), as well as lead to actual standard ways to do things like text figures on the web.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures