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Impetus
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by Impetus » Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:58 am
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?
Impetus
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by Impetus » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:08 am
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!
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by onion2k » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:19 am
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.
Impetus
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by Impetus » Thu Aug 17, 2006 3:36 am
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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by JayBird » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:07 am
Nice, never heard of sIRF before
daedalus__
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by daedalus__ » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:23 am
I tried to use it but it seemed like alot of effort for a tiny bit of anti-aliased text.
feyd
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by feyd » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:45 am
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
daedalus__
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by daedalus__ » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:06 pm
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.
feyd
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by feyd » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:11 pm
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/
s.dot
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by s.dot » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:14 pm
I.... don't understand how this text is "special"? Looks like normal text to me.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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by feyd » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:16 pm
Turn off Flashblock?
daedalus__
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by daedalus__ » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:28 pm
Scotayy, it should appear anti-aliased.
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by s.dot » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:33 pm
Ah, I had to wikipedia anti-aliased to understand the effect. Nifty.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
Hurreman
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by Hurreman » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:32 pm
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!