While working on the forthcoming redesign of the Beam website, FF DIN was made available for licensing with @font-face in WOFF format. It was also released on Typekit.

DIN is Beam’s corporate font and this news presented me with an opportunity to pursue Typekit as an alternative to font replacement techniques like sIFR and Cufón.

While it would appear that the perfect solution had just dropped into my lap; Typekit is a hosted service and this dependance on an external service concerned me.