Leveraging a hosted web font service from a local development server?

Posted by Tom Auger on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Tom Auger
Published on 2011-11-14T21:04:22Z Indexed on 2011/11/15 2:12 UTC
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There are a number of popular web font services on the market today who "host" the fonts and serve them to your web page via javascript or CSS pointing to remote locations. For example http://webfonts.fonts.com or http://typekit.com

However, there seems to be an issue when you're developing on a local testing server - the remote font services don't validate the font and return 403 access denied errors and the like.

What workarounds are there for using remote services such as a hosted font service, on a local development server?

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