Despite the promise this feature holds to create a more beautiful world of
online typography, we may still see designers opt for fonts like Verdana,
which have been designed and hinted specifically for on-screen viewing.
Some of our favorite fonts from the print world just look bad when
rendered on the screen, especially at smaller text sizes.
Surely we՚ll see new industry segments arise as a result of the support of
@font-face, including an influx of browser-hinted typefaces made available
through services such as typekit.
Bickham Script Pro embedded using @font-face and rendered in Safari 4 and
Firefox 3. Notice the OpenType swashes and ligatures supported in Firefox 3!
Text as Image
Serving text as an image may have limited uses, but it allows you to fine-
tune every letter if necessary. Photoshop provides five pre-set anti-alias
settings, which determine pixel values using different algorithms in
conjunction with the document՚s pixel grid. Unfortunately, none of these
settings allow for subpixel rendering, but by using the Free Transform