Adding stylish fonts to your page

was reading this article over at Smashing Magazine on Web Design trends for 2009 and it mentioned the use of font replacement. Stuck in my own little world of sans-serifs, I’d been happy enough with verdana but my fingers felt itchy… A lot of designers would probably love to have the flexibility of type on the web that they get when designing for other media.

Happily, there’s a couple of ways to get flowery, flowing letters without using any sort of images or graphics. Firstly there’s the Flash option of sIFR but I’m pretty against using Flash unless absolutely necessary.

A nicer option is Typeface. It allows you to convert true type fonts into a javascript file that is included on your page. Then you can use this font-family in your CSS for any page element. Here’s an example to show you what I mean (oh boo not working property, check the other link).

Nice, isn’t it.