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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Enhancing the Design With CSS Web Fonts with @font-face

Posted by Benjamin Hedgepeth
Benjamin Hedgepeth
5,672 Points

How often is @font-face used in real practice?

As a novice, I perceive it as an obsolete approach towards visitors viewing the fonts that I want to appear on the page. Google Fonts is so much more streamlined. Is an advantage towards @font-face the assurance that the font will not break because the font is installed on the visitor's computer?

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

@font-face is used by millions of sites daily, it may not seem like it on the outside; but Google Fonts use @font-face too since it's the only way to load custom and third-party fonts for your website via CSS.

Hope that helps.