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My site has always had a custom logo that is a PNG image. I did that so I could choose a specific font that a designer created for my business. I would like to switch to a standard font that is not image based. How do I choose a font that can be displayed on multiple computers(Windows/OSX) and mobile devices? When I used to be more familiar with this, we would use HTML to do so, but now I am assuming it is all done with CSS. Is it possible to just pick out a font from a freeware font site and embed it somehow?

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Try this link, Typetester.com. That will let you know safe fonts to use. There are also ways to incorporate Google fonts and fonts from Typekit and others, but that requires downloads to your visitors.

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What do you mean by downloads? As in the page will load slower, or they have to do manual steps to see the content? There are only like 9 safe fonts on that site. It seems like today the web is full of many many more fonts, that is kind of what I was wondering about. – dpollitt♦ Mar 2 '12 at 2:41
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Yeah, the fonts download (pretty zippy though) from Google or other places. Google for google fonts and you'll get the info... – Andy Williams Mar 2 '12 at 19:08

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