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Rendering Text with Javascript, Canvas and VML

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:46:06 +0400

Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally.

Typeface.js uses browsers’ vector drawing capabilites to draw text in HTML documents. The typeface.js project has two components: the perl module for converting fonts, and the javascript library for drawing in the browser. The perl module extracts glyph outline information from truetype fonts and writes that data in JSON format. The javascript library then traverses the HTML document and renders text using or VML to draw the glyphs.

This code is and always will be free and open source. This includes both the typeface.js javascript library, as well as the perl module with functionality to convert truetype fonts to typeface ones.

Requirements: Firefox 1.5+, Safari 2+, Internet Explorer 6+
Demo: http://typeface.neocracy.org/
License: MIT License

Cufón � Another sIFR alternative for Font Embedding

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:44 +0400

Cufón is similar to Typeface.js which aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, and despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. Cufón consists of two individual parts as well – a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in javascript.

It works on every major browser on the market. There is near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases. And it is fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text.

Requirements: Canvas and VML
Demo: http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2009/03/cufon_font_embedding/
License: License Free

Hand-Picked The Best Fonts for Download

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:23 +0400

Font^ex has spent plenty of hours to compile a list of hand-picked fonts for you. This is an amazing resource for everyone who would like to be presented with amazing free fonts to Download. They are adding some premium fonts on Font^ex soon. The site is profesionally designed. With the help of jQuery, the site becomes more interactive as well.

Source: http://www.fontex.org/

Beautiful High Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:05 +0400

The choice of free fonts is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects.

SmashingMagazine has published Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs, which presents you Chunk, Titilium, Amputa Bangiz, Serif Beta, Quatro, Rough Draft, Comfortaa and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. All of them look really professional, I am sure you will find them useful for your projects.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/05/beautiful-high-quality-free-fonts-for-your-designs/
License: License Free

TypeSelect � Selectable Beautifully Rendered Typefaces

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:44:29 +0400

By leveraging typeface.js, jQuery, the canvas, toDataURL, CSS background properties and real overlayed text, Type Select is able to combine custom fonts with your browser’s native text selection functionality. You can now interact with beautifully rendered typefaces just like you do with normal text.

Web professionals have been stuck with 9 “web safe” fonts for too many years. There have been some clever solutions (SIFR, FLIR, Typeface.js, Cufon), but text selection has been a tough nut to crack. This approach can become a viable workaround until browser technology catches up. Type Select is offered as a free proof-of-concept under the MIT License.

Requirements: jQuery 1.3.2+
Demo: http://www.typeselect.org/
License: MIT License