3 June 2009
Cufón fooled you!
We have recently been using Cufón on some of our recent projects, most noticeably version 3 of our own site as well as Mering Carson, replacing sIFR which worked but was resource heavy as well as a cumbersome task of creating fonts.
This has opened a lot of creative freedom for our creatives, knowing they can use a font and to see it exactly the same from design in comparison to the build. I would have to say this makes Jeff’s and Demetre’s job a lot easier.
The nice thing about Cufón is it’s still SEO friendly as well as very lightweight compared to the flash solution that has been the de-facto method of typography treatment for the web, sIFR.
One downfall of Cufón is you can’t select text, although sometimes you get lucky, it just isn’t supported. You might be thinking, oh no?! But hopefully in later builds this won’t be a problem, and it will be the most “usable” solution. What are your thoughts?
Comments
I’m loving Cufon. The documentation is sparse for now, but it does work great. Big ups to Garrett for discovering this for us!
I’ve recently heard a lot about Typekit but was curious how or if it differs from Cufón.
Typekit does look interesting as well. By the way I love you Garrett you are the man.
Cufon is nice as it is free. And it has worked like a dream everytime for me. Looks like you gotta pay for Typekit (I suppose to offset font licensing issues?).
I did some testing to try and crash my browser with cufon but I couldn’t do it!! AMAZING!!
You have opened my eyes, and I thank you.
EULA is an issue whether you’re using Cufón or Typekit. Except Typekit is attempting to get licensing rights, like Matt said.
I’m surprised that Linotype and the other big foundries haven’t thought about offering subscription based licensing for EOT, seems like it would be more profitable than just updating their EULA.
Linotype has made some attempt, but not much:
“Linotype.com is now licensing some products through a new EULA that permits EOT font embedding for non-commercial purposes.”
Linotype EOT Fonts
heh