As we all know, media queries are by far the best way to distinguish between desktop and mobile browsers, or, more generically, between the dozens of different screen sizes our users can have. Media queries are the future of the web.Nonetheless, the fact that they are the future doesn’t mean that there are no problems. [...]
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Where to find CSS Web Fonts
Thanks to support in Safari, Firefox and Opera, and Jon Tan’s efforts to make them co-exist with IE‘s proprietary EOT format, CSS web fonts are becoming a reality. But the major font foundries are still resisting the idea of licensing fonts for distribution via CSS. So here are a few places where you can find high-quality fonts that can legally be redistributed.
Cross-browser CSS web fonts with @font-face
The promise of web fonts and the @font-face rule is to be able to display any font you choose to any user, regardless of whether that person has the font installed on their machine. Jon Tan has a detailed write-up on how to make it work across browsers.