font-face in css
Let me start by saying that I am not a designer, so this feature didn’t mean much to me; however, when we told designers that they can start using custom fonts – they want ape @$!# for it.
Over the years it has been mentioned countless times how little time you have to capture a person’s attention on your website. Often times this can be done with flashy or enticing designs. With this comes increased download times – slowing the page load down. Also, many web hosting providers supply a limited bandwidth or charge per GB. Flashy or enticing designs can be costly in both the bandwidth and page load times.
With the ability to embed fonts with CSS3, us web developers, can start pleasing our designers by embedding their custom fonts in the website and stop using images to achieve the same affect.