13. Working with Web Fonts
In This Chapter
Downloading Your First Web Font
Styling Web Fonts and Managing File Size
Over the past few years, we have observed a renaissance in using fonts on the Web. Whereas we used to have a very limited choice of typefaces, now, thanks to Web fonts, we have myriad options for choosing typefaces for Web projects. Watching this change unfold is both fascinating and extremely exciting.
Choosing a font used to be relatively simple. By default, you were limited as to what fonts you could expect users to have installed on their computers. This is the reason most Web sites have their body copy set in Georgia, Arial, Verdana, or Trebuchet. These typefaces ...
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