Web safe fonts – the word that has been limiting the design trends and possibilities for ages, all because not all computers have same fonts. You yourself might have been in such situations where you have used an image or simply went on with the “web safe fonts” and compromised with your design. Though a lot of advancement has been seen on the field of web, Fonts have for some strange reasons been given lesser thoughts hence leaving it where it was at it’s birth. But there were some positive steps taken a couple of years back, what was found as potential successor to other fonts was creating an image at run time for the fonts using javascript library. Though this is still in use and there are methods like sIFR, Facelift and other more, the main problem is their feature – that it turns fonts to image, which make it less user friendly, less Search Engine friendly, non select able and and also take a lot of loading time.
But now the times have changed and you can now use any fonts y
ou want and without any problem. So what has been the change? Do you need to add extra lines of code? or do you link to heavy files from another server and all those stuffs? No!
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