FIRST THOUGH, lets take a quick history lesson as again in our series we are using a bit of language that is not strictly speaking ‘CSS 3′. The @font-face command has actually been around since CSS 2 and although not appearing in CSS 2.1, CSS 3 it is attempting to bring it into the standards.
Although I’m sure you have a few, you can download some fonts to play with here at dafont.com(they didn’t even pay me for saying that!)
Cross Brower Compatability NOTE: Your browser does take a moment to load the font file so this is by no means the quickest way… images will more than likely still hold a place in our hearts for fancy font headings.
The above header uses the SketchRockell font with the following CSS 3 applied to it: If we want, we can even apply the CSS 3 Shadow effect as well Current Browser Support (Tested, Jan 2009)
As previously mentioned in An introduction to CSS3, not all current browsers support CSS3 yet. Although originally a CSS 2 language, the only browser that currently supports us embedding fonts is Safari.
All articles in the CSS3 will be updated to show future support & development.CSS 3 Embedded Font Face
HELLO CSS 3 WORLD!
HELLO CSS 3 WORLD!



