Get a great inspiration fix from iLoveTypography.com’s interview with Jos Buivenga, one of the great new type designers that offer superb free typefaces. Jos’s work is a result of years of self-taught discipline and passion for type, and I highly recommend his typefaces and his blog any time you are in the mood for something beautiful.
Last year, the web generated a fiery discussion around the revival of @font-face, the nifty css way of including custom fonts in web pages. A List Apart has a great article about how you can use this old thing (@font-face has been around since css2, but no one implemented it, partly due to the copyright issues that it would have generated; or so I remember). Safari 3.1 is the first browser that implements this. The thing works in both the Mac and Windows versions and it looks really amazing.
I was reading Jos’s approach on licensing fonts for use with @font-face. He asks that a link to his website should be put in the css, next to the @import line. I thought of an alternative.

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