We don’t serve your type in here
IDEA No 96
EMBEDDABLE FONTS
Graphic designers’ biggest grumble about the Web has always been its poor support of typography. Only a few years ago, web designers were restricted to a limited number of web-safe fonts. This all changed with TypeKit.
The first generation of web browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, displayed set fonts. In 1995, Netscape introduced the <font> tag, allowing web developers to choose their own fonts. Technically, you could specify any font you wanted for your site; in practice, users had to have that font installed on their computer to view it.
The set of fonts guaranteed to be pre-installed on both Windows PCs and Apple computers became known as web-safe fonts. These included ...
Get 100 Ideas that Changed the Web now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
