Using ‘web safe’ fonts has been a double edge sword. It ensures designers can’t go off the wall and present unreadable obscure pages that you need a migraine to read.
However, with the numerous stylish and classy non-serif fonts out there for example, designers have either had to juggle with Javascript to load hosted fonts or simply manually create graphics of their desired headings and sub heads in copy.
The following link poiints to the release of IE9 where the @font-face CSS tag will enable pages to load fonts from a hosted file. Superb.
