Monotype Imaging have released their Beta of Web Fonts, providing web designers with fonts other than those commonly installed on end-user's computers. On lineindustries.com we use
sIFR to style headings, introductory paragraphs and so on but it has it's limitations. sIFR uses a combination of Flash and Javascript to style the page once it loads, users who don't have the Flash plug-in lose out and that includes iPhones and iPads. Web Fonts allows use to style type using CSS.
According to Monotype Web Fonts officially support the following browsers:
- All versions of Internet Explorer since v4
- All versions of Webkit/Safari since v3.1
- All versions of Firefox since v3.5
- All versions of Chrome since v4.0
- All versions of Opera since v10.10
Web Fonts is still in beta but we'll be watching how it develops.
Below is a very, very quick example of Web Fonts in use.