Ascender Corp., a provider of advanced font products, announced a new web fonts service on its http://www.AscenderFonts.com site to appeal to web designers and web developers.
Web Fonts from Ascender is a new service to format web sites with CSS @font-face using licensed downloadable fonts. Web Fonts eliminate the hassles and expense of using Flash, JavaScript or image replacement techniques for headlines, says Bill Davis, vice president at Ascender. It also offers text fonts for web designers to extend their typographic choice beyond the limited set of “web-safe,” he adds.
Ascender’s Web Font service supports every major web browser, including mobile Safari found on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Current web browsers with web font support include Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 2.0+, Safari and Mobile Safari 3.1+ and Opera 10+.