TechMedia

I am a big fan of the font Georgia, but sometimes have wistful memories of designing for print, those heady days when life was pretty much a what-you-see-is-what-you-get experience. There are many image replacement techniques, but these can suck up bandwidth and require hacks for viewers with text-only access.

So I was greatly interested to hear about Typekit, a subscription-based service for linking to Open Type fonts. This sounds like an excellent solution to accessing a broad selection of fonts on the web. While @font-face has enabled designers to use style sheets point to web font files, there is a major problem with this technique.

Almost all fonts are protected by copyright — even those available for free — and very few of them allow for linking via CSS or redistribution on the web. – Typekit

Font squirrel is another interesting (free) resource that offers downloads of hundreds of prepackaged @font-face kits. But this method offers no guarantees that the licence is valid for @font-face usage.

For more info on online typography, speckyboy.com has a wonderful collection of links: 50 Essential Web Typography Tutorials, Tips, Guides and Best Practices.