For the fact is, even bulletproof and mo’ bulletproofer @font-face CSS syntax aren’t really bulletproof if we care about looks and legibility across browsers and platforms.
via 24 ways: Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room.
For all the advances that have happened with regards to font rendering through the browser, it’s a long road to achieving what a print designer can do in five minutes. Someday we will be able to edit fonts and scale them up and down, and know that it will look the same on every computer, every device, every where, every time. That time is not today and probably not in the next few years.
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