2012
2010
Boing Boing’s Redesign Uncovers the Dark Side of Web Fonts | Webmonkey | Wired.com
by sbrothier
So does that mean there isn’t going to be a way to use @font-face until Windows XP is a dim memory? Well you could always use JavaScript to detect the operating system and selectively applying @font-face to an OS that can render it. That (among other things, like licensing complexities) is one of the potential problems startups like the TypeKit project are hoping to solve.
2009
FontJazz - Embed fonts on web pages
by antoine
FontJazz is a tiny typographic engine written in JavaScript, enabling webdesigners and developers to use any typeface on a website!
Combining Cufón and @font-face • CSS & (X)HTML • Kilian Valkhof
by sbrothier & 2 others
veryone wants @font-face to work everywhere, but as it stands, it only works in Safari and the upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera. In this article I’ll show you how to use Cufón only if we can’t load the font through other, faster methods.
Exploring Cufón, a sIFR alternative for font embedding ~ Authentic Boredom
by sbrothier & 1 other (via)
Thanks to a tweet from Jason Santa Maria a few weeks ago (and his help since), I was pointed to Cufón, which “aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use.”
I’ll refer to these tests again in a minute, but feel free to jump ahead to these Cufón test pages that I’ve put together.
About - cufon - GitHub
by sbrothier & 1 other (via)
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set:
1. No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
2. Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
3. Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
4. Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text
And now, after nearly a year of planning and research we believe that these requirements have been met.
cufon - GitHub
by claire_ & 1 other
Fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required.
2008
sIFR Tutorial: Use Your Own Fonts
by sbrothier
Even though sIFR has been around for a couple years, many web designers have still never heard of it, let alone use it. sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) allows you to use custom typography on your site by utilizing JavaScript, Flash, and CSS. While most people simply create images when they need a custom-type title, sIFR can dynamically create short text blocks using whatever font you want (while still rendering the text with a default font on non-Flash browsers).
2007
Moderate Design - Dynamic Text Replacement
by rike_
I developed DTR so that web developers could add custom fonts to their websites, without having to manually create GIFs, or embed image tags or complicated CSS code in their (X)HTML.
