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- Fully accessible to screen readers and assistive technology
- Partially selectable text (cannot select surrounding elements)
- jQuery integration
- Anti-aliasing results in crisp font rendering
- Flash-based font embedding is generally an allowable practice by most font foundries
- Easy to add text effects such as shadows in Flash
- Requires Flash
- CPU and memory intensive
- Font license restrictions can be difficult to set up (e.g. Flash loading needs to be locked to your domain)
- Can be tricky to set up
- Embedded fonts cannot be printed
- Easy to set up
- Does not require Flash
- Fastest loading and processing time (according to this presentation)
- Inability to highlight and copy/paste text
- License issues prevent many fonts from being legally embedded
- Does not support justified text alignment
- Hover state for elements other than links might result to unpredictable results
- Requires extra JavaScript to prevent FOUC on IE7
- Easy to set up
- Does not require Flash
- Fast loading and processing time
- Fonts are only selectable in browsers that support <canvas>
- Hover state is not supported, but a workaround that requires extra code is available
- License issues prevent many fonts from being legally embedded
- Long loading times in IE
- Only supports TTF (does not support .otf, PFB, and postscript fonts)
- Requires extra JavaScript to prevent FOUC on IE7
- Has spacing issues, according to some people
- Does not require Flash or JavaScript
- Fonts are rendered as an image and does not violate font licensing terms
- Many text effects available thanks to Imagemagick
- Inability to highlight and copy/paste text
- Can be painful to set up
- Requires a web server with PHP and the GD library enabled
- Finer details of fonts are not rendered very well by the GD library
- Takes up additional server resources to process (bandwidth and CPU)
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Those of you who have explored rich typography solutions for web development should be very familiar with the different techniques floating around the Internet. Until majority of the population uses browsers that support CSS3, and until commercial font licensing issues allow use of the @font-face rule to become a norm, many resort to these font embedding techniques.
The thing with non-standard font embedding techniques is that they mostly rely on JavaScript and sometimes Flash or PHP to render text in whatever custom font is specified. Thus, choosing the right solution for a web project can become tricky. This article aims to compare them by listing the pros and cons of each technique.
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) / sIFR 3
Probably one of the first full-blown text replacement solutions, SIFR uses a combination of JavaScript, CSS, and Flash to render custom fonts.
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Cufon
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use.
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Typeface.js
Typeface.js is similar to Cufon, using a JavaScript engine to render fonts on a browser using canvas or VML.
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Facelift Image Replacement (FLIR)
Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that uses JavaScript, PHP and the GD library to dynamically generates image representations of text that use custom fonts.
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The good thing about these techniques is that they all take into account things like accessibility, SEO readiness, and browser support. These are all huge factors in web development today. For Internet Explorer users, IE6 is supported at least, and for non-supported browsers, thankfully every one of them degrades gracefully into your standard HTML rendered text.
In conclusion, every one of these techniques has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. sIFR is the oldest and most “proven method”, however it relies on both Flash and JavaScript thus taking a hit on performance. FLIR uses the old school technique of replacing text with images and even offers text effects. However, it is hardest to set up and requires a web server with PHP and the GD library enabled.
Typeface and Cufon are the most promising beign the easiest to setup. On the other hand they are both plagued with licensing issues and lack of ability to select text, which for many can be a deal breaker. This appears to be changing though, as Type Select builds on top of typface.js and promises text selection functionality. Still, it is a relatively new player and is also plagued by limitations such as lack of support in IE and no support for :hover and line breaks.
Firescope Firefox Add-on for Firebug
Fans of the swiss army knife of web development Firebug will be happy to hear that this wonderful Firefox add-on has added another blade to its arsenal. With the help of the Firescope add-on, it can now provide CSS and HTML reference in a snap. Just right-click on any tag and click on the context menu to perform a lookup. The tool appears to have been developed by the web gurus over at SitePoint, so tool has links to further information on the SitePoint Reference web site.
The tool is also searchable. You can:
… search for HTML elements, HTML attributes, or CSS properties (or any combination). The search happens live as you type, so usually you’ll only have to type one or two letters to get the results you want.
Check out the screenshots:
