Web Fonts... I Love You, I Hate You

Dear Chalet, why you keep playin’ games with my heart, girl? I thought we were really hitting it off! You made my website look so sexy with your beautifully rendered letters and spacing. We had a good thing going until I discovered you were just a gold-digging typeface lookin’ to break my bank. I know Arial was homely and plain but the relationship worked with or without the cash. I hate to say it but we must part ways. I hope you understand. Best, Font Lover

There has been a rising trend online in the past couple years that has been hard to ignore; Web Fonts. In 1995 Netscape introduced the tag that changed everything, which also became standardization in HTML 2 in 1998, our friend, the tag