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Tha.Riddla
 
2009-11-17

typekit.com/

??

Looks pretty good to me, any alternatives out there?

Technomancer
 
2009-11-18

Originally there was sIFR

Then there is facelift

and Cufon

I have used them all:

sIFR is flash based and i found it a bit of PIA to use but that could have been the site I was working on and the font used.

Facelft is PHP and is simple to use and implement and is worth using if your site is being developed in php

Cufon is flash/JS based and is really easy to use too.

Tha.Riddla
 
2009-11-18

sIFR sucked balls. I found it very inconsistent and hard to manage. Almost impossible to use in any kind of programmatic way. Maybe 3.0 or whatever the new version is at is better.

facelift is similar to what I'm doing now on intelligentsia. Text replace with images using fonts uploaded to my server. I don't like that you can't use it as "text", meaning wrapping is impossible. usage as body text is non-existent, etc.

Looks like Cufon is what i might be looking for as it seems like i can upload my own fonts to my server as opposed to using typekit's library and paying for the service.

//edit.. Nevermind....Cufon does the same thing that I do now but it renders it when the page loads (I think). Currently I'm generating these via PHP and storing them server side so they are generated and stored the first time any visitor visits the page (most likely me). The only difference it cufon renders per word, allowing wrapping(?)

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anyone used typekit?