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Why do we need web fonts, why not use standard fonts? The first thing that comes to mind is that standard fonts are terribly boring, and with their help it is difficult to do something original. As a rule, most of them bring melancholy and despondency not only to users, but also to web designers. Non-standard fonts in this case are more expressive and besides, there are an order of magnitude more of them, so there is plenty to choose from. And yet, the font is an integral part of the brand, so every company strives to use it more actively, since such a technical opportunity has appeared. At TypeType, we’ve got a broad experience in creating both fully custom fonts and modified commercial fonts https://typetype.org/ from our collection. And it would be possible to completely abandon the standard fonts, especially since many mobile operating systems do not support them (for example, Arial, Tahoma, Verdana and Georgia). But, unfortunately, the industry, which has been customized for 96 DPI screens and Georgia-verdans for many years, was not quite ready for rapid changes, and on old Windows OS there are still problems with displaying non-standard fonts due to the peculiarities of the rasterization mechanism.