I am sure many of you want to use fonts on yours or some of your client websites that are not traditional – web fonts that stand out. The reality is somewhat different: there are actually quite a few gotchas, some of which are easy to miss if you’re not testing thoroughly.
When you read the marketing pages from suppliers of Web fonts and font delivery services, you get the impression that with just a couple of lines of code you can transform a site – with no hassle all the issues taken away from you. I can’t be the only one who sighs in desperation each time the words ‘font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Geneva, sans-serif ’ are keyed into a stylesheet! Finally, website designers can unshackle themselves from the limited range of fonts that are available once you aggregate down the common typefaces on Windows, Mac, Linux and so on. It’s almost possible to feel the wave of euphoria rolling around the Internet that’s been generated by the arrival of Web fonts.
