cufon is cool stuff!

What might make a good companion or follow up to this article is a nice collection of fonts that are free to use with Cufon or @font-face. Finding good ones, especially ones that are decent replacements for restricted fonts, can be difficult at times. Even better would be any CDNs of fonts (like Google http://code.google.com/webfonts) so you don’t have to slow down your site too much just for a headline.

As web designers, we have to make a lot of difficult choices. You could abandon SEO and just use images for text, or you can abandon nice-looking fonts for the few standard web fonts we have. The type foundries are no help, so we step up and build tools to bridge the gap– sifr, cufon, typekit (and other @font-face services).

I wish the foundries would give us an acceptable alternative rather than hoarding their precious fonts with such restrictive licenses.

Anyhow, I wanted to post a shameless plug to my Cufon-powered profile page: http://www.chrisfletcher.net

Cheers

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As a designer, you should be ashamed of yourself for overtly violating IP law. I counted three illegal uses from firms like Hoefler & Frere-Jones (http://typography.com) which states:

“the delivery of fonts via @font-face (and therefore cufon) constitutes the illegal distribution of our font software, and we therefore do not permit our fonts to be used in this way.”