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Typominima - WordPress theme. WhatTheFont! Cufón - fonts for the people. The Easiest Way to Use Any Font You Wish. CSS 3 is on the horizon, and we're all getting excited. Thanks to the latest browser updates, developers can begin working with time-saving new properties - such as @font-face. Unfortunately, the availability of these features is limited to a tiny fraction of our overall userbase. At least for the next year or so, we'll need to continue utilizing the Flash and Javascript alternatives when embedding fonts.

Luckily, a new contender, Cufón, has made the process unbelievably simple. Pros Lightning fast! Cons It's Javascript dependent. Step 1: Download Cufón Visit Cufón's website and right-click on the "Download" button at the top. Step 2: Convert a Font In order to function, we need to use the font converter utility on the website. If desired, also upload the italic and bold files as well. Step 2b Next, you'll need to choose which glyphs should be included. Step 2c Cufón allows you to designate a specific url for your file, to increase security.

Step 3 The next step is to prepare our project. Online Font Converter. Typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript. Font replacement to images when necessary. OTF Harmonizer 1.1 Free. Contraste couleur [ Colour Check. WP Google Fonts. Google's free font directory is one of the most exciting developments in web typography in a very long time. The amazing rise of this new font resource has made this plugin the most popular font plugin on WordPress and it shows no signs of stopping.

While font plugin solutions like FontBurner.com have helped bring rich typography to WordPress themes, the selection of fonts easily available to the average blogger have been limited. The WP Google Font plugin makes it even easier to use Google's free service to add high quality fonts to your WordPress powered site. Not only does this plugin add the necessary Google code, but it also gives you the ability to assign the Google fonts to specific CSS elements of your website from within the WordPress admin. Or if you would rather, you can target the Google fonts from your own theme's stylesheet. Right now, the Google Directory has hundreds of great fonts, and the selection is steadily growing.