I can’t really put a finger on when it happened, but at some point in the not so distant past, web design broke through a pretty major glass ceiling. Up until this point web design was bound and constricted to what web ( and physical ) technology would allow it to do. Web technologies started with table based layouts, web friendly fonts and tiny display resolutions. It then progressed to CSS, web standards and the integration of application and interaction design. Now, with HTML5, CSS3 and new javascript methodologies, we are able to build creative and inspiring websites that are…
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4 Techniques to Display Any Typeface in HTML
Typography on the web has always left something to be desired. With so few options it can be frustrating to many web designers. However, recently there have been many developments on the web typography frontier and now with a little extra work there are ways to get any typeface you want to display on your web pages.
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sIFR is perhaps the best known dynamic text replacement technique. It was first conceived by Shaun Inman as a way to dynamically replace HTML text with flash text. It’s a great solution from a user standpoint because the text not only looks great, but it…
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