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Warning

This article is in the early stages.

In the past and we still do this to some degree today....

Examples of Custom Web Fonts

The Best of FontFonts on the Web - Top picks from FontSHOP.

Recommend Hosted Solutions

FontSpring

http://www.fontspring.com/

Provides local hosting option.

FontSpring provides formats to work with older browsers http://www.fontspring.com/fontface and have auto-hinting to ensure the font looks nice on Windows.

Even though web fonts are quite prolific, some custom IE6 installs at some banks may break web fonts. Fontspring works with IE6.

Note

To document, there's a flash as the font changes... what browsers and how that happens.

FontsLive

http://www.fontslive.com/

FontsLive has a very neat feature where you can load up your site and preview fonts. Provides local hosting option for both http and https.

FontSHOP

FontSHOP has a very large selection. At the moment they seem to be larger than FontSpring. However, they offer a monthly subscription version that they host themselves.

References

2010 article on various options - http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/673335945/the-mess-of-web-font-services

Another good list - http://nisha.in/web-font

Google web fonts - http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select