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web fonts

I’m not sure what the exact use case was, but Sam Stephenson recently asked me:

@chriscoyier What's the best way to reference the OS X system font in CSS (to get Lucida Grande or Helvetica, as appropriate)?

— Sam Stephenson

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Me, for the last year or so: “rem‘s are so cool! I’m gonna size everything with them, that way I can adjust the font-size on the root element and everything will scale with it!” It was a nice …

The issue is 1) custom fonts are awesome and we want to use them 2) custom fonts slow down our pages by being large additional resources. Dealing with this has been in the air recently so I thought I’d round …

A reader writes in:

Would it be possible to draw an entire typeface in CSS to be sent in emails? Our company needs to send out emails to about 20k people to introduce a new brand that we are launching.

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Many (especially decorative) web fonts come only in a few selected weights and styles. It's smart to load as few as possible since they can be quite heavy, but also make sure you only use them in the weights/styles you load otherwise the browser will fake it for you and muddy it up.

I have to admit I don’t have my head fully wrapped around this whole font-embedding controversy. At it’s root, it comes from us web designers being frustrated by the lack of options font options for our web pages. We want …