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Web font options - jQuery Tutorial
From the course: CSS: Advanced Typographic Techniques
Web font options
By now, you probably know what web fonts are. And at least the basics of using them, even if you've never actually used them in one of your own projects. Now, we're going to be using web fonts for almost all of the projects in our course. And we'll be taking advantage of Adobe's Edge Fonts service. Before I go into using Edge Fonts in a little bit more detail, however. I want to discuss some of the options that you have when choosing web fonts. Now first, you could use a commercial hosting service like Typekit, the one that I'm showing you here. Commercial hosting services are great. You buy a subscription. You essentially choose the fonts you want to use out of their vast libraries. And you just throw a little bit of code into your site and you're good to go. Now, now each of the hosting services execute a little bit differently. Here I'm showing you Typekit. I also want to point out fonts.com, which is another really popular one. I mean there are a bunch of them. You just do a…
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