Browsing Inman Flash Replacement

Making Web Fonts Work Jon Tan on the current state of embedding typefaces. It never occurred to me that @font-face might incur a delay before rendering text (a common complaint against sIFR). And I had completely forgotten how rubbish ClearType is. Until anti-aliasing discrepancies between platforms can be resolved I don’t see even a standardized approach being accepted by discerning designers. Looks like we’re in for another four years of flash replacement. 

The State of Font Embedding Mark Wubben, the maintainer of sIFR, thinks out loud about font embedding and the various stop-gap alternatives. 

Web Fonts on the Horizon I hate to be cynical but somebody wake me when a major type foundry starts talking (favorably) about web fonts.  

God hearts sIFR Abel is dead, long live Abel. 

Lealea Design “Lealea is pronounced like that princess’ name from Star Wars—twice.” Nice use of sIFR and Slideshow Pro to present some gorgeous work. Don’t miss the Blogblog. 

Read Which typefaces do you use on ShaunInman.com?  

Read How do you anti-alias your headlines/use Din even though I don’t have it installed?  

sIFR 2.0 Note the lack of “release candidate” on that version number. Also, my pseudo-link that previously exploited Mike’s smart 404 technology is now a real page. A true Pinocchio story. 

sIFR Wiki Exactly what it says it is. Nice. 

Flash Image Framing Similar to IFR, Flash is used to add a little more oomph to inline images by adding a custom border or “frame” treatment. More info here (I was just reading about “hyperwords”—then this pops up.)