akurtula Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 Hi I normally use the image replacement method which text is indented to -9999px and adding the images. Though I know there are other methods, and the @font-face which sounds very cool, then there is the other one with flash (though never used that) We are in 2011 and I have google searched this topic and everything seems to have been written in 2009 - So because there is a very big difference between web today and the web of 2009, Which font embeding method is most reliable to use today Thanks a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickham Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I use @font-face. It used to be only supported by IE but is now supported by all the major browsers, provided you have the font in several formats. See http://www.miltonbayer.com/font-face/ and kits with instructions from here http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface The complicated Flash and javascript methods like cufon and sIFR seem to be going out of fashion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I should also mention -- there are online services like Typekit that can help with font replacement: http://typekit.com/ http://fontdeck.com/ etc. It's another option if @font-face has issues/you don't want to go that direction. I'm not a big fan of flash based text replacement like Cufon/sIFR. The way I figure it, the less Flash, the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akurtula Posted October 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 (edited) That's very helpful I think I read somewhere that you need to have permission (copyright) to use the font in the website. I want to use @font-face only for my personal projects. Overall is there any copyright laws that I need to be careful about or have I misread what every I am referring to. Also you mentioned that the flash based method is out of fashion, do you think that the image replacement method is out of fashion as well? as I have few sites in my portfolio that I have used that method Thanks for the advice Edited October 6, 2011 by akurtula Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susie Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 Lately, I've been importing Google fonts with a line in the CSS file like this: @import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Spinnaker); And then you can just include it in your font-family line like this: font-family: 'Spinnaker', sans-serif; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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