What's the best option I have for designing a website with a unique font that all visitors will see, even if they don't have it installed?
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That being said there are some options.
1)
The best option to use non standard web safe fonts is something called sIFR.
sIFR stands for, "Scalable Inman Flash Replacement".
Here is an in depth technical overview:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/
Importantly, the outline says:
"sIFR works on Mac, Windows, and Linux machines with javascript turned on and Flash 6 or greater. As far as browser support goes, it’s great on all the majors and even some of the minors: PC IE 5+, Safari, Firefox, Opera 7+, Omniweb, and even Konqueror. We estimate this covers over 90% of consumer-grade machines in the world.
The beautiful part, however, is that if any of the above conditions aren’t met, users will see the exact same content, only without the sIFR text. Standard browser text will appear instead."
Here is the wikipedia page for a less technical overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Inman_Flash_Replacement
Here is an online sIFR generator:
http://www.sifrgenerator.com/wizard.html
2)
Other then sIFR, there are a couple of other options, but sIFR really is the best.
Dynamic image replacement:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext
Javascript with Typeface.js:
http://typeface.neocracy.org/
I've been known to design a page or two in a pinch :)
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As long as you add proper alt tags your site will still be spidered based on that content. I'd recommend going with images over using flash because flash takes longer to load and Flash would still need to have vectors within it, basically it would just be a waste of resources to make it in to flash.
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If you're really worried about everyone being able to see an entire page of custom text, you should stick to a web safe font.
i read up on sIFR from the link you posted. It appears it's mostly used for short passages of text though, and not full pages. Is this still the recommended way to use it? or have enough advancements happened since 2005 that this is no longer that big of an issue if I want to have my body text sIFRed?
If you want "everyone" to be able to read it, stay away from dark backgrounds. Especially black and dark blue. Us old guys can't read them