Thursday, January 27, 2011

Fonts and HTML

As many HTML authors have found (and are still finding) to their chagrin, thus far, declaring the use of some really attractive but non-typical font in their web pages, resulted in horrible renditions on most browsers running on platforms without access to the relevant font files.

Many solutions have come up in the past to address this - the following come to mind:
  • GIFs (text blobs as images for universal rendering)
  • BitStream
  • sIFR
  • Cufon
However, with HTML5, or rather CSS2 (where this first came about), web fonts may be finally on their way to obviating these chaos.
Check out Font Squirrel for the lowdown on what's been going on in this space...

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