Benjamin Ashcroft » Font Replacement http://www.benjaminashcroft.com Manchester based web developer and designer of high quality websites, printed matter and moving images. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:33:28 +0000 en hourly 1 SEO freindly font replacement = Pretty Letters http://www.benjaminashcroft.com/web-design/seo-freindly-font-replacement-with-out-the-flash/. http://www.benjaminashcroft.com/web-design/seo-freindly-font-replacement-with-out-the-flash/.#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:54:08 +0000 Benjash http://www.benjaminashcroft.com/?p=53 In the past, when i’ve needed to expand from the normal range of web fonts. Ive relied on Sifr to replacement the web text with nice pretty flashy fonts. The problem was this solution was a bit fiddly and had to rely on flash. Leaving me with a labourus task of manually image-replacing headers and so on, with my powers of css.

Recently on a new project a great piece of work was brought to my attention. A great javascript based text replacement solution called Cufon. Simply put, its great. Very little effort to intergrate, even less effort to control. Not even that much slow down on page load.

Visit here to get the lowdown

As its javascript and kicks after the page loads, it degrades gracefully if not supported. As well as leaving all the juicy web text for the web spiders to nibble on.

The only thing to be wary of is licensing issues, but hey check out this great example of Cufon in action.

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