Cufon is very handy, typekit is also but expensive and limiting.
@Jim : RGB colours are a must for web as CMYK & Pantone is for printing. I forget sometimes but try to ensure you check before a site goes live.
@Kevin : As a web developer you would hope that a web designer has an understanding of web fonts, they wouldn't be a very good web designer if they didn't. However as a web developer (predominantly front end) you should be aware that web design is no longer limited to twelve or so fonts. With the use of typekit, cufon etc then you can literally use any font, but this doesn't mean using a print font (such as Univers) is a good idea. Work with your designers to achieve the best result for the client, but I would suggest to not impart your ignorance onto them.
Next poll: does anyone bother if they are using web safe colors?! ...I personally forgot about that when 'save for web' came along.
Kevin - 14 years ago
I would hope that if you are doing a Web project that your designers know what Fonts are typical for Web use, much like they should be using Web Colors. However, I have worked several projects where the artists went to town and used all kinds of non-standard Fonts and the client actually wanted me to create a dynamic generator for their site to generate text as images to ensure the cool Fonts the designer used would present well on the Web /facepalm
As a general rule, I allow Font Substitutions via CSS but as a Web Developer I encourage the designers to follow what Fonts work well with Web and what do not.
Sometimes, I'm using the @font-face selector, but more often, I'm using Cufon. Although this won't work properly all the way, it gives a better result than the CSS possibility.
@pete - cufon looks the best? i would say @font-face and typekit look the best...
i wouldn't exactly consider typekit/fontface to be font replacement though either.
Cufon is very handy, typekit is also but expensive and limiting.
@Jim : RGB colours are a must for web as CMYK & Pantone is for printing. I forget sometimes but try to ensure you check before a site goes live.
@Kevin : As a web developer you would hope that a web designer has an understanding of web fonts, they wouldn't be a very good web designer if they didn't. However as a web developer (predominantly front end) you should be aware that web design is no longer limited to twelve or so fonts. With the use of typekit, cufon etc then you can literally use any font, but this doesn't mean using a print font (such as Univers) is a good idea. Work with your designers to achieve the best result for the client, but I would suggest to not impart your ignorance onto them.
Rockin' the house only with Cufón.
Next poll: does anyone bother if they are using web safe colors?! ...I personally forgot about that when 'save for web' came along.
I would hope that if you are doing a Web project that your designers know what Fonts are typical for Web use, much like they should be using Web Colors. However, I have worked several projects where the artists went to town and used all kinds of non-standard Fonts and the client actually wanted me to create a dynamic generator for their site to generate text as images to ensure the cool Fonts the designer used would present well on the Web /facepalm
As a general rule, I allow Font Substitutions via CSS but as a Web Developer I encourage the designers to follow what Fonts work well with Web and what do not.
Cufon looks & works the best. I would love to use CSS but the fonts are often rendered horribly.
We've been using sifr but plan to try cufon or @font-face in upcoming websites for CHNM
Sometimes, I'm using the @font-face selector, but more often, I'm using Cufon. Although this won't work properly all the way, it gives a better result than the CSS possibility.