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Free @font-face fonts you might want to use

Published on August 9, 2009 in Daily; 8 Comments

I love letters, I love type. Even more due to the fact that I used to do graffiti and create my own letters from scratch. The biggest pain of the web so far is that the use of fonts is very limited, because there is basically no viable solution to show custom fonts on the web and every solution has its ups and downs. Due to this, web designers often stick to basics – Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Trebuchet, Georgia and Times New Roman.

With wide CSS3 adaptation drawing near, @font-face becomes the weapon of choice for lots of web designers mostly because it’s easy and it just works. Foundries are not so happy with this solution, though, because it lets you download font from website just like you would download an image – and with licenses going up to thousands of dollars for a font family it means lots of money lost for typographers and foundries. Typekit with its .webfont proposal may be the way to go, but until it works and is widely adapted, we can try working with free fonts and @font-face in CSS. Here are few @font-face compatible fonts you might like to use in your next design.

That would be it. I hope you’ll find these useful and will allow you breathe some life in your new website design. As usual – if you liked it, drop me a comment or ping me on Twitter. Thanks!

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