Tired of looking at boring system fonts at websites?
If you use an modern browser (Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 should be ok, Chromium 3 on Linux unfortunately isn’t) you should notice an unusual looking font on my side for titles and all the things not belonging to articles (notes at the side, the footer). This is an “embedded” OpenType-Font GraublauWeb by FDI fonts.info.
@font-face has quite an history. It was part of CSS2 but not widely implemented and thus got dropped from CSS2.1. With CSS3 it’s coming back as it is part of the working draft. And not only that, now browsers even start to support it!
There remains just one problem currently: most licenses of fonts don’t allow you to distribute them. That means there are not many alternatives available, yet. A nice page to find free fonts for @font-face use is on opentype.info.
What’s still lacking are good free fonts usable for longer texts on web pages. For titles and short paragraphs you might find something you like, though.
