Today we can use a variety fonts but there was a time when we didn't have web-fonts and only a few variations. Most usable were — Georgia, Arial and Times New Roman. But if you wanted to do something unusual and use your own fonts — that's what I would call pain in the ass. The `@font-face` rule was announced only with the CSS3 fonts module. The first formats for embedded fonts were Embedded OpenT
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