Chapter 6 : Beautiful Typography

You won’t be long into your career as a web developer before you discover the need to format some text in a custom or corporate font—a typeface that is not in the standard set of pre-installed fonts on your end users’ computers. You will then need to decide how best to display that stylized text. This chapter presents a number of different solutions to the problem. We look at the pros and cons of each method with regard to ease of development and maintainability, accessibility, performance, and visual appearance.

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