CSS System Fonts: Improve Your Site's Speed and Performance

A Brief History In the early days of web development, websites were limited to using only the fonts that were available on all computers, such as Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, and Times New Roman. If a designer wanted to use a fancy font, they had to resort to using images. Then, in 2008, Safari and Firefox introduced the @font-face CSS property, which allowed online services to provide licenses for web fonts....