Within the last five years, typography on the web has taken quite an about face (sorry, pun intended). It used to be that web designers were constrained to using web-safe fonts only; system fonts available on all users’ computers. As you can imagine (or experienced first-hand), this was frustrating to us type freaks, but we dealt with it. However, in a weird way it was kind of nice because you had a limited set of fonts to choose from, so the time spent picking the perfect font was minimal (I’m not complaining). Now though, a font specific to the look and feel you want to achieve is possible, and companies can now project their visual brand language through typography. So along came a few methods of serving type to our websites, the most used being @font-face . This CSS rule gives us the ability to download fonts from a server and use them on our stunning web pages
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