I’ve been working on a side project since early last year and it’s finally ready for the big time, so I thought I’d share it with you.

It’s called TypeFront, and it’s a font distribution platform that leverages downloadable font support in browsers to serve fonts to the web sites that you choose.

Last year, the W3C and the browser makers finally got together to make something beautiful happen - downloadable font support in the CSS3 specification and an implementation of this in the latest versions of all the major browsers. Suddenly you could refer to a font file through your standards-compliant CSS code and it would be correctly downloaded and displayed in over 90% of the browsers out there.

Finally we could look back on our years of Arial-bondage and laugh.