Venturing into @font-face territory for the first time seemed relatively painless and pleasing to the eye, that was of course until I reached the root of all evil, Internet Explorer.
My sparkly new fonts were displaying perfectly is every browser, but failing to render in IE.
After Googling I discovered font squirrel, an amazing online resource which generates the .eot file required by IE from your original font file for you. Even better it provides a zip file containing a working sample (HTML/CSS files), and the font in all the other formats used by various other browsers.