Monday, 28 March 2011

Font Embedding


Until recently, when undertaking a new website project I would tell clients and designers that their choice of fonts was very restricted. However CSS3 has made embedding fonts practical and some fantastic online services have made it simple, providing free multi-format font files supported in all major browsers. Google Web Fonts allows easy direct linking to their files but have a limited selection of fonts, however with user submitted fonts this selection should grow. For now I have been enjoying using Font Squirrel who have a great selection and their @font-face kits provide all the files you need plus the code to embed them.