Laying Pipes

Getting fonts to look like you want is an art. Neither font-embedding nor image-embedding is an acceptable technique for sites that need to be content-heavy, accessible, and multi-lingual. However if you’re willing to make a few compromises, you may be able to get satisfying results out of OS native CJK fonts with minimal hassle.

The @font-face CSS property has recently gained much attention for providing designers with something that had been long given up on — the ability to use custom typefaces on the web. Although this is great news for the web community, it appears that so far the unchallenged assumption is that developers only require latin-based characters, and as always the plot thickens for Asian languages.