Over the coming months, web browsers will start to support linking to fonts. This means you'll be able to use CSS to link to a font file and deliver web pages with a vastly increased set of fonts.

There will be issues with the license of course. Most of us have already paid for font licenses.

And there will may be issues with rendering - the fonts are hosted on servers and refered to much like images (I am guessing here) but this will increase the pull on bandwidth as a font will probably take up at least the amount of data of a small image.

It is obviously early days.

But, some very clever people are about to launch something called 'Typekit'.

This looks like a service that will host the fonts for you, you'll be able to buy a license (free to use, families, libraries etc) - the pages you build will refer to these fonts.

But this may raise issues about privacy - they might be able to track your site traffic for instance. I hope they have some BIG servers...

So, Typography comes to the web (and email too?)!

Check this out.

There are obviously still some technical challenges too, here's a flavour of these.

What do you think the problems will be? Should the font libraries provide developers with library licences to serve the fonts?

Should Adobe 'package' them up with Dreamweaver (or a basic library, like Quark used to)?

Lots of questions.