Comments on: Cufon – a real alternative to sifr? http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/ Bloom Media are an award winning 'full service digital agency', we provide ROI focussed digital campaigns for some of the UK's biggest brands. Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:11:19 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Dom http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/#comment-507 Dom Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:02:02 +0000 http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/?p=647#comment-507 Well I mean after buying the licence for the font/s, of course, or using free ones. Is it ever so important that an exact font simply *must* be used on a web page? IMO, the design of any web site has boundaries imposed by the technology, not to mention the budget. Well I mean after buying the licence for the font/s, of course, or using free ones.

Is it ever so important that an exact font simply *must* be used on a web page? IMO, the design of any web site has boundaries imposed by the technology, not to mention the budget.

]]> By: Stu Bamforth http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/#comment-506 Stu Bamforth Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:24:18 +0000 http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/?p=647#comment-506 @font-face also falls foul of the EULA. @font-face also falls foul of the EULA.

]]> By: Dom http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/#comment-505 Dom Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:03:05 +0000 http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/?p=647#comment-505 What about @font-face? That would be my preference rather than fiddling with JavaScript! What about @font-face? That would be my preference rather than fiddling with JavaScript!

]]> By: Stu Bamforth http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/#comment-504 Stu Bamforth Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:21:45 +0000 http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/?p=647#comment-504 Sifr isn't really as bad as I make out, it's actually a really useful tool if you have to have a certain font on a site i.e. brand guidelines demand that the corporate typeface is always used for headings etc. They guys who developed SIFR deserve praise as it was a massive step in the right direction for frustrated web designers. It's just a bit of a faff to implement and when you SEO boys start changing h2's to h3's and adding <strong> tags all hell can break lose! My major issue with it is that if a site has loads of text being replaced with sifr, the raw html web text appears and is visible for quite a while before it gets swapped. If the fonts appeared instantly it would be fine but it can a bit messy otherwise. Sifr isn’t really as bad as I make out, it’s actually a really useful tool if you have to have a certain font on a site i.e. brand guidelines demand that the corporate typeface is always used for headings etc.

They guys who developed SIFR deserve praise as it was a massive step in the right direction for frustrated web designers. It’s just a bit of a faff to implement and when you SEO boys start changing h2’s to h3’s and adding tags all hell can break lose!

My major issue with it is that if a site has loads of text being replaced with sifr, the raw html web text appears and is visible for quite a while before it gets swapped. If the fonts appeared instantly it would be fine but it can a bit messy otherwise.

]]> By: Stalker B http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/#comment-502 Stalker B Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:54:04 +0000 http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/?p=647#comment-502 I assume using your own font isn't violating any EULA? What about free fonts? I assume using your own font isn’t violating any EULA? What about free fonts?

]]> By: stuartpturner http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/creative/cufon-a-real-alternative-to-sifr/#comment-501 stuartpturner Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:33:29 +0000 http://www.bloommedia.co.uk/blog/?p=647#comment-501 Pretty interesting stuff Stu - what are the major problems with Sifr? (I work in SEO remember I have no idea what you lot do in there :P) Pretty interesting stuff Stu – what are the major problems with Sifr? (I work in SEO remember I have no idea what you lot do in there :P )

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