So I’m currently in the middle of what has likely (at least visually from a design perspective) been the most complicated website I’ve done so far, and I’ve definitely learned a lot working on this one. But, probably the most fun part of what I’ve learned has been the @font-face CSS trick.

I guess it’s silly to call it a trick when people all around me know about this rule, but I thought it was pretty great and incredibly useful. The @font-face rule allows you to embed a font into a website so that you’re not chained down to the normal list of web friendly fonts. I’m as big of fan as Tahoma as the next guy, but it’s pretty eye-opening to have the chance to use pretty much any font under the sun.

Here’s a great article that explains more about the backgrounds of fonts as well as the rule to use for embedding:

Now you can include a font on your website without pulling out all of your hair. Here’s to fun fonts! Comic sans for everybody! (Kidding,Kidding. Comic Sans is already pretty web friendly.)