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Alex Bilstein is Blue Fish’s User Interface Designer and Front-End Developer Extraordinaire, and he’s just written three amazing articles about how to use custom fonts on the web.
Custom fonts are all those cool looking fonts that you see on posters, billboards, and other print advertising. Most computers don’t have these fonts installed, so designers buy them from font “foundries” to use in their designs. Web site designers are at a disadvantage, because in order to use a font on a web site, it needs to be installed on the web visitor’s computer, and most computers have only a handful of standard fonts installed. This is why most web sites use the same two or three fonts over and over again - those are the fonts that are installed on every computer out there.
Over the years, crafty designers and web developers have been coming up with clever ways for web sites to use custom fonts even if they are not installed on their visitors’ computers. The techniques have evolved over time, and now there are some pretty good ways of doing this.
Alex has written three articles that will get you up to speed on what you need to know to use custom fonts on your web sites.
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