Font Squirrel’s awesome tool to generate @font-face declarations (including setting up your fonts) has received a lot of press recently, and it is well deserved.

I don’t recall when I came across it, but I have come to rely on it for many things. From using it to test use cases and actually refine my own implementations of @font-face to letting it take over in recent client projects. In fact, it’s powering the very post titles you’re looking at right now (which in turn are using the amazing League Gothic).

One project that is relying on this is Young Diplomats‘ new website. A labour of love between Salazar Studios and Hightop has ended in this amazing design taking full advantage of modern browsers to render a font that would never have been possible months ago.

Not to mention the HTML5 video implementation that successfully enables native playback of the intro video on several platforms (speaking of which, it is still not completely clean since the code is a bit messy and not as easy as one simple <video> tag, but clearly that’s where things are heading).

Way to go, Font Squirrel. Typekit is fun, but for those of us who want full control, there’s nothing better.