Posts Tagged ‘sIFR’

Great post over at Smashing Magazine about web typography. Scattered through the article are a bunch of sIFR-based, and quasi-sIFR techniques and plug-ins. I just finished playing around with some of them.

TTFTitles WordPress Plug-In: Works beautifully. The plug-in allows you to set up styles to be applied in your WordPress templates, and then generates PNG files on the fly based on your style and whatever TTF fonts you have uploaded in a special folder. The unfortunate bit is that you have to have fonts sitting on your web server, which opens up the Pandora’s box of piracy. And, of course, unlike sIFR, you now have images instead of text on your web pages.

Font Burner: Basically, this is sIFR for the technologically-impaired. The site has a collection of sIFR-ized fonts, and the code to be able to use them. Just find a font you like, copy the code, paste it into your web page, and you’re done. The problem is that the code you’re inserting points back to the Font Burner website. So if their site is down or changes, you’re screwed.

JQuery sIFR Plug-In: I’m excited about this one, and as soon as I’m done posting this, I’m off to try it. I love the idea of integrating sIFR into this revered JavaScript library.

Other Text-to-Image Packages: typeface.js, facelift, PHP + CSS Dynamic Text Replacement (P+C DTR).