Dean & Deluca was among the first online stores built with Viaweb in 1996 (the founders of Viaweb went on to start Y Combinator). I remember some difficulty try

Dean & Deluca was among the first online stores built with Viaweb in 1996 (the founders of Viaweb went on to start Y Combinator). I remember some difficulty trying to get their copperplate font to render nicely into GIFs without dithering. (There were no webfonts at the time -- if you wanted a branded look, you had to render an image on the server.)