@cnwtx, it’s really too bad about lack of support for font-size-adjust, but at least we have that to look forward to.
@traq, for some reason it hadnt really clicked that @font-face would still work without javascript until i read your post, thanks.
after testing on every device i have access to and all the emulators on Browserstack im only seeing one edge case where it’s defaulting down the fontstack. ironically it’s the Google Nexus One.
i’m going to take @ChristopherBurton’s advice on this one, and just pick a more suitable fallback font.
thanks for the responses!