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@font-face Generator

Setting licensing issues aside, one of the biggest obstacles to using @font-face, is the royal PITA that is converting fonts from your format of choice into Microsoft’s proprietary EOT (Embedded OpenType) format for our friends stuck with Internet Explorer.

Until recently, the cumbersome process involved converting from OpenType format to TrueType format, using a service like FontForge (which helpfully sports a UI designed to make your eyes weep), then making a follow-up trip to one online tool or another to convert from TrueType format to EOT format.

As Mr Zeldman recently pointed out, Font Squirrel’s @font-face Generator seamlessly helps to take some of this pain away… which is not only nice, but might help, as Mr Zeldman puts it, “Play a huge role in spreading [the] web fonts love.”

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