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Typography on the web has been a thorn in the sides of website designers since the very beginning. Currently, a user has to have fonts installed on their system to display them in browsers, which means true web type is generally limited to a few basic fonts (Arial, Verdana, Georgia, etc). A few basic fonts just doesn’t cut it when designing attractive websites, so designers and developers have created a few workarounds.
The most basic is to simply save type like headlines as an image. This ensures it will render properly on any browser, regardless of what fonts users have installed. The problem is that it’s not really type; users can’t highlight it (for copying and pasting), and search engines won’t index it as such. It’s also a bigger file size, although this is less of an issue now that more users are on high-speed connections. In general this is the most common solution, but fundamentally flawed. For various reasons, text on the web should be actual text.
