I have got tired of those so called web standard fonts, or in other words the font that are installed on a majority of computer systems such as Arial or the dreaded Verdana (it takes up alot of space), gladly things have change now, majority of web browsers have added support for CSS ‘@font-face’, which allows web designers to add their own font; the only downside is that there is not a single format that will work on all platforms, for example TrueType works well for Windows browsers, WOFF  is a newer format and is currently supported by Firefox 3.6+, will be supported by Google Chrome and Apple Safari and technical preview of Internet Explorer 9, WOFF is very similar to EOF but is compressed and lightweight.  Internet Explorer 6 and above support EOF, while Chrome, Safari and Opera support a straight TrueType and OpenType font, but Mobile Safari only support SVG font, which applies to iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad.

Use your own font?

Check out http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

Update: I have also tested this within Ubuntu, the only different between Windows and Ubuntu was the way how the font is anti-aliased, putting that aside, it was fairly consistent between the two and that one thing that important to web designers, consistency, I guess that would be one advantage of supplying your own font.  I’m pretty sure the Mac would be pretty similar to the Ubuntu way.