What's the most suitable font replacement technique - technically, legally and in terms of accessibility - to use a Helvetica font in my website? Up to now I've used sifr as a font replacement method, but for Helvetica, it would pose legal issues because you have to upload the font to your server and therefore it becomes available for download. Is there a method that would allow you to get around that problem?
Need to use Helvetica in CSS
css;fonts
There are a number of font sellers online that let you purchase web fonts specifically for embedding in webpages. Helvetica is probably available from at least one of these stores (pretty much any major font store like Veer, MyFonts, FontFont, Linotype, Fonts.com, etc. now offers web fonts). Many of these web font providers also provide web font services that will host the fonts for you as well as let you choose from a large number of fonts for a flat subscription fee. Typekit is the most popular of these services.In any case, all of these font providers will generate the CSS for you and likely have a suitable web font for your purpose.If you don't want to spend money purchasing a font just for web use or subscribe to a web font service, then your options are limited to FontSquirrel, Google Web Fonts, and the League of Movable Type. These are open source or freeware fonts that are licensed for free use on the web. Alternatively, some open source desktop fonts may also be converted to web font format using the FontSquirrel conversion tool, licensing terms permitting.