Hi All, A few months ago there was an e-mail about Cufón, http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/2009-February/001816.html
Cufón is at http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/about What cufón appears to do is indeed create nice effects with fonts for your web pages. You need to first pre-convert your font (TTF, OTF) to an intermediate format that cufón requires. Then, you can design a page that can create nice font effects on the fly, with just Javascript and the intermediate font format. There is a page at http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/ to help generate those intermediate formats. The font conversion page has some interesting text about Web embedding, " The EULAs of these fonts allow Web Embedding (without Adobe Flash). See Fonts and the Law at fontembedding.com for more information. Fonts produced by the following foundries/vendors/creators are known to be safe: Adobe Systems. The following are known to require separate or extended licenses for Web Embedding: FontFont (separate), Hoefler & Frere-Jones (separate), ITC (separate), Linotype (extended)." Apparently, open-source fonts are in an advantage here. I am not involved with the cufón project; I just happened to notice the project when my new wordpress theme came with cufón preconfigured. This is a FYI e-mail only. Simos
