Typography has long been a large part of graphic, and web design. In the past though, web design has had to suffer typographically, with any text that was wanted in a non web safe font (a font already stored locally on users computers) had to be rendered as an image; not exactly brilliant for the user interface department. Font’s like Lucida Grande, Helvetica and Myriad Pro were as exciting as it got. Not any more though.
Over the last few years we have seen the rise of some fantastic tools to allow us to get creative with the typefaces we use on our websites. There are really two mainstream approaches here; @font-face, and of course, Flash.
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