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I just had an interesting idea...
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:11 am
by Luke
Has anybody used sIFR for integrating any font you like into websites using javascript and flash? The cool thing about it is that it's completely unobtrusive. It just replaces the elements you tell it to replace, so if javascript/css aren't available, it just reverts to standard h1, h2, div, etc.
Anyway... While trying to think of features for my news application, I thought... wouldn't it be neat if it was possible to have a user upload a font of their choosing to your news/cms/whatever application and let the user then store as many fonts as they like in a library... then they could actually have interesting options for font headings. Just a thought... anybody?
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:50 am
by Kieran Huggins
I've used it here:
http://urbanemagazine.ca/columns/delicious.diversion/
It's certainly nice in that it gives the designer more control over type on the web, but you have to create a special "flash font file" in flash and upload that to your server, one file per typeface. I don't think it would work for automatic uploading
You could create a bunch of pre-made flash font files and activate them by adding class names to divs/spans.
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:09 am
by Luke
yea I know you have to embed the font in a flash file. I've used it a few times. I suppose there really is no way to do that automatically. It was just a late night thought. I'm still going to think about how that might be possible though, because that would be really cool.
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:52 am
by matthijs
I've used it in the past but a big problem I had was that the Flash prevents getting the correct right-click menu. Useful for open in new tab for example. Don't know if that has changed in the latest version though. And of course this assumes you use it for clickable headers.
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:38 am
by RobertGonzalez
Dude, Kieran, that site is cool. What font is the 'URBANE' in? And when did Harrison Ford become a chef?
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:22 pm
by timvw
Everah wrote: What font is the 'URBANE' in?
Check out
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/, it can recognize fonts

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:32 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Yeah, it can, but I am lazy and Kieran is cool, so that means it will be less work for him to just tell me what font it is...

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:57 pm
by Luke
yes, that site is beautiful, kieran. That font is awesome.
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:00 pm
by Kieran Huggins

awe shucks, thanks guys

It's easy to produce nice results when you're given strong photography
Typeface for the masthead is ITC Novarese LT (modified R, of course), the script typeface is Snell Roundhead, menu headers are Futura CE medium, and paragraph headers (the sIFR ones) are Optima LT Demibold.
All celebrities are just chefs in Canada. Tricia Helfer made me a cheeseburger combo at lunch today... I guess she missed the pun when I said I wanted "number six"....