I just had an interesting idea...
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I just had an interesting idea...
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?
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?
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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.
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.
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Check out http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/, it can recognize fontsEverah wrote: What font is the 'URBANE' in?
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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.
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