webfonts

Web font embedding vs. sifr?

I'd like to use a non-standard web font to improve the appearance of my HTML. Is it preferable to embed a web font or use something like sifr? My understanding is sifr is a flash-based viewer for vector fonts but I've been reluctant to try it because it seems somewhat complicated. There does not seem to be a lot of encouraging talk ...

How do I package a custom TrueType font with a web site so the browsers will render it?

I'm developing a website for someone but they want (insist) that the title be in a non-standard font. (The customer is always right.) I have the TrueType (.ttf) font but how do I bundle this with the website so that it uses it? I tried putting it in the Images folder and tried to access it with the style sheet: font-family:URL(Images/...

How to create smooth headlines with HTML and CSS?

I saw a lot of web pages recently, that have very smooth headlines, like this website for example: http://boagworld.com/ How do they go about to do that? Are there any hidden clues? At one point I heard from a technique where they used Flash (I think) to embed custom fonts onto a website and then replace normal headlines with this flas...

How to make Google Fonts work in IE?

I've been developing a site that uses the Google Fonts API. It's great, and supposedly has been tested in IE, but when testing in IE 8 the fonts simply don't get styled. I included the font, as Google instructs, thus: <link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans+Std+Light" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> and...