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  1. John LeschinskiNov 11 2009 12:37 PM

    Frankly, I\'m not so sure it\'s a bad thing that it\'s difficult to embed fonts.

  2. Maxime Perron CaissyNov 11 2009 1:29 PM

    I just realized that the header image was actually not an image! Well done with the overflow hidden. Georgia is nice when it\'s large & italic.

  3. SkylarNov 11 2009 2:52 PM

    Thanks Maxime, thought we\'d throw in some good ol\' Verdana & Georgia in honor of the subject.

  4. Christopher LaughlinNov 11 2009 4:27 PM

    You know what this means?

    If Futura becomes a WOFF, or other embeddable font, IKEA can go back to it!

    There\'s hope!

  5. Calvin BuchananNov 11 2009 4:39 PM

    Great read. Seeing as how you guys use sIFR I am surprised there was no mention of this as a current option.

  6. MickNov 12 2009 2:35 AM

    @Calvin - skim reading are we?

    \"Web designers have been stuck using the same tired web-safe fonts for over a decade, resorting to hacks like CSS image replacement, sIFR (guilty), Cufón, and others to spice up headlines at the expense of usability.\"

  7. Adam PattersonNov 12 2009 9:37 AM

    I think progression is great for the web, but there is always the backward compatibility issue. It is important to think about how a site will desegregate. IE if your fancy font is replaced by Arial by Default will the same visual message be accomplished?

    If the client is using IE6 will you have to explain that if they upgrade their browser to something more recent that things will look like the design comp?

    Love the article as well.

  8. Stephen YadzinskiNov 12 2009 10:35 AM

    Excellent resource to help explain to clients about the limitations of web font usage. Thanks!

  9. Matt SteelNov 12 2009 2:29 PM

    *Leaps for joy ... but not yet.

  10. andré felipeNov 13 2009 12:09 AM

    I can\'t wait to see the internet with better typography. Text has never been so massive and important.

    Meanwhile Flash is doing wonders with the new Text Engine – ligatures, baseline alignment, etc etc... it is being a very exciting time, and by the way, I even believe Flash will live its golden age next year and on.

    I used it in my website http://www.andrefelipe.com - press \";\" (semi-colon) to show the baseline.

  11. Michael LynchNov 14 2009 2:25 PM

    It really is a shame that web safe fonts are so constricting.

    3-5 years is far too long. That just means we\'re going to have paid service in the meantime and that blows. Obviously the technology is there. This kind of software should be open source and made universal as quickly as possible.

  12. VivianNov 15 2009 9:17 PM

    Great round-up... I\'m definitely expecting more ugly experiments like that bOING bOING fiasco! My fears of @font-face: http://blog.twg.ca/2009/09/4-fears-of-font-face/

  13. Ben Peck | Freelance DesignerNov 17 2009 12:20 PM

    I\'m so glad that there are other pushing for this too.I can\'t describe the joy that I have the closer this becomes a reality.

  14. JoshNov 29 2009 12:05 AM

    If I could pick for one thing to advance more quickly in web design, this would be it. I can deal with a bad IE, but I would love to have a wider range of fonts to pick from. @font-face is interesting, but if the foundries aren\'t on board, what good does it do?

  15. gyoDec 10 2009 10:14 AM

    Guys, @font-face is the future of web-typography, finally we\'re talking about it!

    It\'s supported by Internet Explorer, Mozilla family, Safari, Chrome... what else do you need?
    Plus, there are a lot of fonts that allow web embedding in their licenses.

    I (and many others) wrote a @font-face tutorial, check it out:
    http://www.giordanopiazza.com/blog/web-design/custom-fonts-embedding-no-hacks-no-javascript-no-flash/

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