Dynamic Text Replacement Solutions

Typography plays a very important role in Web
Design. Current Web Design trends involves variety of fonts to
ensure a good user experience. Obviously these are
not-standard system fonts in many cases…

Well, Image
Replacement has always been a good solution but not for a site
with with too many elements or even sites with dynamic content.

Here we have put together a clean list of popular Dynamic
Image Replacement solutions that will help you solve various
font related issues.

1. sIFR 2.0

sIFR is meant to replace
short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in your
typeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have
that font installed on their systems. It accomplishes this by
using a combination of javascript, CSS, and Flash.

2. cufón

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

3. P+C DTR

P+C DTR allows you to take a
vanilla standards-based (X)HTML web page and dynamically create
images to replace and enhance page headings using only PHP +
CSS.

4.
FLIR

FLIR dynamically generates
image representations of text on your web page in fonts that
otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated
image will be automatically inserted into your web page via
Javascript and visible to all modern browsers.