Ideally speaking, aesthetics is one of the major principles web designers and developers consider in creating websites that will work and cater to the best of their clients’ interests. The typeface you choose can contribute to defining the nature of the website — it sets the tone and the mood of the content, and just generally helps in delivering the website as a whole package. However, in the past there have been typeface limitations that prevented web designers from expressing their inner artists, e.g. being forced to only use web safe fonts.
Until now, using our favorite household web typefaces would mean jumping through hoops due to all the licensing and browsing support issues one would have to deal with. Using real fonts would also mean Flash replacement text, back links and exported images… but things are starting to change. Slowly, the world’s font libraries have started opening their doors and likely it will only be a matter of time until we get access to a selection far greater than Arial and Verdana.
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