If your tired of the limited fonts available on your customers pc, try the hosted fonts made available by google
In the example code below we will be using the tangerine font
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine">
<style>
body {
font-family: 'Tangerine', serif;
font-size: 48px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Making the Web Beautiful!</h1>
</body>
</html>
Here are more starter guide samples
check out the google fonts directory
