Speaking of typography… this page is absolutely gorgeous. And it’s not an image — that’s perfect, clean text, made possible by embedded fonts.

The day when we can really do typography on the web is fast approaching. Check out this snippet from a great article on how it is basically feasible NOW:

Firstly, Microsoft has been supporting font-embedding for over a decade (since IE4 in 1997) and also the font-face tag and @font-face CSS selector. Secondly, the @font-face selector was a 1998 CSS2 recommendation (dropped in CSS2.1). It’s made a comeback in CSS3 and hopefully will become a web standard.
The beauty, of course, is that it’s now possible to embed fonts for IE6, IE7, IE8, FireFox, Safari (PC & Mac versions) and (soon) Opera 10. According to our June 2009 web stats, that’s over 97.5 percent of our visitors - about as “cross-browser” as you’re going to get in today’s online world!

I had forgotten this. Read the article for more info on how to embed fonts. This is really exciting news!