Web Fonts
They aren't super new, but they are definitely becoming more popular and widely used. The source sites that provide them are growing and their libraries are expanding. Typekit was aquired by adobe and is available with an Adobe Creative Cloud membership.
Font Squirrel and
Google Fonts provide free web fonts and they are easy to use. I just found another free source of web fonts at
Adobe Edge Web Fonts. We'll see if it works when I publish this post, but I attempted to install the Adobe Edge code to this post and change the font.
A fantastic section was found in Practical Web Design magazine / January 2011 (yes I keep good magazines around for quite a while) regarding web fonts and other CSS3 capabilities and their implementation. The lostworldsfairs.com site pictured here employs a web font and it looks amazing. This is huge for a designer who wants to explore text in ways that the web has not been able to do in the past without inserting images. Very very fun and cool. Check it out.
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