Webmonkey has a tutorial on embedding fonts:
http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/d...tutorial2.html
It is possible to use a different font, but it takes a bit of work. It must be either an Embedded Open Type ( .eot Microsoft) or TrueDoc (.pfr Netscape).
Although you can make your font unique, also consider that some people with high resolution monitors will see your pages much smaller than the 800 x 600 monitor users, and anything less than 10 point is hard enough to read even using the usual sans-serif fonts. A fancy font will look like gibberish.
