Jiansen Lu
Custom Web Fonts
May 21st 2010 10:36
When designing a website its sometimes hard to keep it looking unique and fresh especially when your stuck using the standard Verdana and Arial fonts that we are now so very accustomed to. Well, this is now a thing of the past, at least for modern web browsers.
CSS3 has brought in a great new feature which allows you to embed the font and allows the use of any font you can think of! Now its not entirely a new feature. It was proposed for CSS2 however it was never implemented. Even Internet Explorer has support for @font-face since IE5, however its wasn't used in any other browsers which made it pretty much useless.
But now with CSS3 and the fact that IE has its own way of supporting fonts we can now use the @font-face to apply any font to websites without relying on images or changing to a web based font. What great news for web designers and developers.
CSS3 has brought in a great new feature which allows you to embed the font and allows the use of any font you can think of! Now its not entirely a new feature. It was proposed for CSS2 however it was never implemented. Even Internet Explorer has support for @font-face since IE5, however its wasn't used in any other browsers which made it pretty much useless.
But now with CSS3 and the fact that IE has its own way of supporting fonts we can now use the @font-face to apply any font to websites without relying on images or changing to a web based font. What great news for web designers and developers.
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