Re: FN-FORUM: Common ornate font to use on website

date posted 14th May 2008 19:46

On 14/05/2008 21:12, Ben Johnson (Neogic) F wrote:
>
> +1 sIFR - We normally use sIFR for non-standard heading fonts - good thing
> is it transparently replaces standard HTML text with a fancy font version,
> which is great for SEO (robots don't read image/Flash text) and visitors
> with Flash turned off.

Some robots do read image names, alt tags, title tags of images,
although they won't class them the same as h tags.

>
> Two other methods to consider:
>
> 1. PHP has a function called "imagettftext()" which can generate dynamic
> text on the fly as an image. We use a technique that caches the generated
> image, so only needs to be generated first time. See:
>
> http://uk.php.net/imagettftext

To me this actually seems better than using flash, although both have
their advantages/disadvantages. You could probably implement it in the
same way as sifr.

>
> 2. CSS has had built-in support for *embedding custom fonts* into a page
> for years (since ~IE4?) .. but no one seems to use this. Plenty of reading
> here:
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=css+font+embedding
>
> I haven't looked into for a while; does anyone on the list have experience
> with using CSS font embedding?
>

I thought that had disappeared a long time ago?

Martin