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How do they get this font to display like this?

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I can't seem to find out how ABC get there HEadlien font to display like this... It appears to be a graphic but it's in <h2>...</h2> brackets so it is definately plain text.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... id=2323254

"Officials: Suspect Admits Killing Ramsey"

Does anyone know what font they are using as it must be a standard one and how to set it up to display like this?
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sIFR

Google for it.
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I have been for a long time, but my searches have turned up nothing. I'm either looking for the wrong thing or it's not commonly known.

I thought I'd ask on here to see if anyone new off the top of their head! :wink:
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Impetus wrote:I have been for a long time, but my searches have turned up nothing.
Quite frankly I don't believe you. Putting sifr into Google gets pages and pages of results about exactly what you're looking for.
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Post by Impetus »

Ah sorry about that, I thought 'sifr' was a typo for 'sirf' as in surf the internet which I know is spelt wrong but I'm dyslexic!

I was searching under guesswork, found loads of results now thank you very much!
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Nice, never heard of sIRF before Image
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I tried to use it but it seemed like alot of effort for a tiny bit of anti-aliased text.
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A lot of effort? Last I saw it was pretty easy, at the most basic:
  • add script link to sifr.js
  • optionally add CSS for print and screen
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The docs told me to open up Flash and edit something, and to add a font to the directory it was in or something.

I'm just lazy. :P
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That's only if you want a font that isn't readily available as sIFR already.

These's guys have put together a lot of fonts for sIFR: http://www.fontsmack.com/
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I.... don't understand how this text is "special"? Looks like normal text to me.
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Turn off Flashblock?
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Scotayy, it should appear anti-aliased.
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Ah, I had to wikipedia anti-aliased to understand the effect. Nifty. :)
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Post by Hurreman »

Awesome. Simply awesome.

I was just thinking about something like this the other day, but using a class to replace text with images instead.
Now I don't have to, yay!
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