Are Web Fonts Ready?

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Are Web Fonts Ready?

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Are web fonts ready to be used in real-world, web designs? Is there a cross-browser way to load your own fonts into your website today, or do we have to wait a few more years? I know IE5-8 supports web fonts with EOT file types. And pretty much all the other web browsers support TTF file types. So could I use a conditional comment for IE users to load EOT and TTF for non-IE users? Or is there a good reason not to do this?

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I'd say yes. Here's the blog post I see people recommend all over the interwebz: http://paulirish.com/2009/bulletproof-f ... on-syntax/
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So how do I convert an otf to an eot, or an eot to an otf? O.o
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I also found this useful tool: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
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JellyFish wrote:I also found this useful tool: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator
Thanks for the link of this useful tool. It is really great resource.
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