GOODBYE, ARIAL AND VERDANA. HELLO, WEB FONTS!

摘要

Web fonts are an emerging technology that is transforming the way we view the web by breaking our reliance on locally-installed fonts. Although the @font-face syntax was first introduced in CSS 2.0 in 1998, lack of format standardization, poor rendering, and strict font licensing prohibited widespread implementation of web fonts - until recently. Web fonts give you, as a content creator or web designer, more flexibility in typographical decisions and more control over how your content appears on a variety of platforms. A variety of font-hosting services have cropped up in the last few years, some offered by such industry giants as Adobe and Google, that enable web designers, from novice to veteran, to break free from the tired, old "web-safe" fonts. If you don't feel comfortable relying on a service, you can even host your own fonts. It is said that 95% of web design is typography, which means that the majority of web design has been limited to a handful of typefaces - until web fonts came along. By definition, web fonts are font resources that are served to a browser remotely. In reality, web fonts help you break free from the shackles of limited font choices and kludgy workarounds. They give you, as a content creator or web designer, more flexibility in typographical decisions and more control over how your content appears on a variety of platforms. In short, web fonts are awesome!