I stum­bled upon an awe­some web­site today. It is called FontSquirrel. FontSquirrel is one of the many online free font cat­a­logs. Unlike the others, this web­site offers some­thing unique: @fontface kits. A kit is a col­lec­tion of font files and CSS code that you can down­load install for your web­site. This is a won­derful tool for web­site designers. The @fontface pro­tocol is rel­a­tively new. It’s nice to see online resources finally pro­viding fonts and tools for designers to take advan­tage of the capa­bility. It really opens the door, at last, for online type freedom.

FontSquirrel also has a very inter­esting tool offered in as a “beta”: the @fontface kit gen­er­ator. You can upload a font and have the web­site con­vert it into one of their kits, com­plete with proper font for­mats and CSS code. Obvi­ously, they would prefer you to obey license agree­ments from foundries. How­ever, if you’re like me and you have your own TTF fonts, you can have their gen­er­ator pro­vide you with the files required to deploy your font online. Way cool.