Posts made in September, 2011

fonts – the other way

Posted by on Sep 29, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

Aha, I had forgotten (or rather never used) the other way to embed fonts on to webpages. What I feel is the proper way. The background (in case this and my previous post make no sense) is that you can normally define only a certain limited number of font to use on a website because the person visiting your site needs to have those same fonts installed on their own machine to view them. If they don’t have them then they get a horrible default one like times roman or something. Cufon does it one way, but the nicer way is to embed various formats of the font definition file on the website...

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cufon – any font on your website

Posted by on Sep 29, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

(within legal usage restrictions naturally…) Currently updating a clients website to use a particular font that they have in their headings. The font looks really cool, but creating them with images is less google friendly that having a proper text heading in there. This is where cufon comes in. It allows your webdeveloper to use your favourite font but it retains readability (ie searchability) by the search engines. Share this:Email

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