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Really nice link, pcx99! If there's one thing I (and probably the majority of the world's web designers) would love to change, it would be the ubiquitous availability of better looking fonts for web typography. It is the height of irony that the present trend for "good looking" websites basically mandates the use of arial/helvetica in gargantuan sizes. I mean, seriously! There are untold thousands of awesome fonts for more expressive typography, but a web designer can't count on them and the archaic standards we continue using don't provide a sufficiently convenient download on demand feature for font.

If only...

Rick

Just hang on for the next generation of browsers! CSS 3.0 will let web designers send a font as easily as they send an image! So if you have your heart set on Rockwell Extra Bold, you can send it along as a CSS attachment :) You can actually do this in IE right now (since IE 5 I think), but it's a proprietary extension which no other browser supports just yet.

I feel a bit guilty about this article (which I'm just throwing out as a bonus outside my regular mon/thu schedule), since it's just a more researched, reformulation of "Add Windows Vista fonts to your stylesheets" which I submitted and was promoted a few days ago. But Christian's original article had an unfortunate title and didn't get much play (10 votes), and I really wanted to get the word out about these cool new toys so I consolidated the information and tossed in a massive pdf example, and hopefully a few more people will start to see just how beautiful these new fonts really are without having to go spend $200.00 on vista ;)