Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 2:23 pm

Custom fonts using SVG

9Sep 08

An interesting post on using SVG via the Dojo JS library to render custom fonts on your pages: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/09/08/custom-fonts-with-dojoxgfx/

Limitations include: slow as hell on IE, and slow as hell when replacing more than about 5 headings (as with sIFR). Nice experiment though.

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