Following on from where I created my own font, I am now going to look at the best way of using this font on my website. In web design we are quite limited by the fonts that we use. To ensure a consistent design across all computers we have to rely upon a few select fonts that most operating systems (e.g. windows) have installed by default. One alternative is to create an image of the text in editing software (i.e. Photoshop, Gimp), this is however very time consuming. For example if you wanted a fancy title for each blog entry you would manually have to create an image each time you created a blog entry.
So a few nice people have created clever solutions which will allow us to use custom fonts on dynamically created text (this saves us from having to create an image each time). I am going to do a bit of comparison on 3 of these tools to find out which is best for my needs. Primarily I am going to be looking at download size, ease of use, performance, cross browser ability and overall quality.
My simple tests can't be considered an ultimate comparison, it's merely how I got on trying to set up the three alternatives for the simple usage that I require. For that reason I am using the services as they come, and leaving the settings as default. Unless of course they don't work at all, in which case I will do what I can. I generally use Firefox for developing, but will attempt some cross browser testing.
