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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design<br />
you want to host your own fonts, they’ll have to be licensed for web embedding, you’ll need several<br />
different font formats, and you’ll need the latest code for embedding all those formats. That’s where<br />
Font Squirrel, 5 seen in Figure 4.3, comes to the rescue. On this very useful site, you’ll find hundreds<br />
of excellent free fonts, downloadable kits for embedding those fonts into your sites, and a generator<br />
that can convert your own font files into all the required formats. If you’re unable to find what<br />
you’re looking for in Font Squirrel’s collection of free fonts, visit their sister site, Fontspring 6 . Here<br />
you can purchase commercial fonts from actual font foundries who allow @font-face embedding,<br />
many of which offer an unlimited domains license for a small surcharge.<br />
Web Font Services<br />
Figure 4.3. A selection of the vast array of free fonts available at Font Squirrel<br />
If you’d rather not bother with all the font files and ever-evolving code for embedding them, there<br />
are several services that host the fonts and keep up with the embedding nuances for you. With each<br />
of these services, you simple pick a font, grab a snippet of code to drop into your site, and voilà!<br />
Your type is displayed in that font.<br />
5 http://www.fontsquirrel.com/<br />
6 http://www.fontspring.com/