crit: @font-face alt typeface for Hoefler Text?
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I'm not using sIFR for this project because it isn't really appropriate for body copy on content-heavy sites.
Font embedding is preferable to <canvas> or Flash-based type replacement technologies. There are many benefits to using @font-face rather than one of the standard replacement technologies.
@PonyBoy - I guess I didn't explain myself well enough. I'm using two fonts on the above site. One is embedded by @font-face (the larger face), the other is Hoefler Text (a font built-in to OSX). The problem is, that if someone doesn't have Hoefler Text on their systems (ie, almost every Windows user), it will display in Palatino (the font stack degrades to next font in the list).
My primary concern is finding alternative typefaces to Hoefler Text that can be embedded on a website (there are licensing issues) using @font-face, because Palatino i
I mentioned critique because I value well-reasoned opinions. But, you are right, there isn't much content there (yet), but still plenty to critique in terms of technical execution.
There must be some web type geeks here on QBN?