[OpenFontLibrary] Text replacement, fancy effects and Cufón

[Simos Xenitellis]

Hi All,
A few months ago there was an e-mail about Cufón,
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/2009-February/001816.html

Cufón is at
http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/about

What cufón appears to do is indeed create nice effects with fonts for
your web pages.
You need to first pre-convert your font (TTF, OTF) to an intermediate
format that cufón requires.
Then, you can design a page that can create nice font effects on the
fly, with just Javascript and the intermediate font format.

There is a page at http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ to help
generate those intermediate formats.

The font conversion page has some interesting text about Web embedding,
" The EULAs of these fonts allow Web Embedding (without Adobe Flash).
   See Fonts and the Law at fontembedding.com for more information.
Fonts produced by the following foundries/vendors/creators are known
to be safe: Adobe Systems. The following are known to require separate
or extended licenses for Web Embedding: FontFont (separate), Hoefler &
Frere-Jones (separate), ITC (separate), Linotype (extended)."

Apparently, open-source fonts are in an advantage here.

I am not involved with the cufón project; I just happened to notice
the project when
my new wordpress theme came with cufón preconfigured.

This is a FYI e-mail only.

Simos