Instead of dealing with Microsoft’s format and having to design fallbacks for every other browser, designers stuck to web-safe fonts and remained obscure. The company limited support to the their own proprietary, DRM-protected format to reassure foundries that designers wouldn’t be able to upload fonts in their libraries and in so doing make those premium fonts available to sneaky downloaders. There were many problems with Microsoft’s implementation. For most of the web’s life, designers haven’t had much flexibility when it comes to setting the type for their sites, and type decisions have almost always come down to choosing one or two web-safe fonts (a small collection of fonts that are installed on most users’ machines) and setting the font sizes.ĬSS’s has garnered significant attention in the past year as browsers expanded their support for it and major type foundries began developing web licenses, making services such as Typekit possible. What many people don’t realize is that isn’t new–in fact, Internet Explorer 6, every web designer’s headache, supported it before just about everyone else. ![]() ![]() If there’s a topic that’s bound to get designers riled up into a fiery debate, it’s the issue of choosing the best font for reading to use on the screen.
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