Going through exactly this when trying to optimize a site for a large company. Designers ended up with a little cursive font for headings. Getting approval from

Going through exactly this when trying to optimize a site for a large company. Designers ended up with a little cursive font for headings. Getting approval from bigcorp takes forever. So many months in, that's the design. There's no cursive-looking font that is commonly available on all machines. So we either have to use a font, or render images. Since it's used in more than a couple places, the font ends up taking less time. Or I could try fighting the design, customer relationship, corporate branding, etc. teams to convince them the site's better off with just "Sans-Serif". In short: fonts aren't going anywhere. Now, it would be nice if a dozen or two fonts of varying styles were included by default with browsers. But I imagine that'd just lead to designers raging about how <someone> is trying to limit creativity and enforce conformity. FFS, many fonts don't even render properly on Firefox on Windows (like on medium.com) so I highly doubt usability is being considered as a main priority here.