For years their was a set number of fonts you could use for web design and that's it. So if you wanted anything else typographically speaking it had to be a jpeg for a gif or a png.
But NOT ANY MORE!!!!!
For those not up on the latest web technologies with the release of CSS3 came a Web font functionality. If you have the right font files you can embed the file needed for a computer (or cell phone or tablet or what have you) to output your text in your font right in your website.
