However, if descriptions of bitmap fonts could be sent down to the web browser along with the text and images in the page, I believe we could make a major step forward. This would have to be supported by modifications to the browsers. This approach makes it easy to support non-Latin character sets in a very simple, decentralized way. Documents in Sanskrit, Arabic or Hebrew could be represented very nicely using downloaded bitmap fonts. Another nice thing about this idea is that it democratizes fonts on the web.
Any font designer can easily use or make their fonts available for web page designers.
In addition, anti-aliased bitmaps could be transmitted to the client for display at particular sizes. Format of a WebFont A WebFont consists of a GIF image, and a binary file that contains information describing where the pixels for each character in a font can be found in this image. The .gif image may look something like this. The GIF image may have only two colors or may have up to 256 levels of gray. It can have transparency if it is desired.