Font Replacement Technology Explained

Having spent the last couple of years studying and integrating Font Replacement technology and removing it and plugging it in again and configuring CSS values in 5 different browsers and chewing bits of rubber foam off my decrepit stress ball… I found it would be quite generous to relieve you, the blogger/web designer/web developer of causing any further harm to inanimate objects.

 

As a brief explanation, Font Replacement Technology gives you the ability to use fonts of your own choice in order to make a website look the way you want it to. The methods I have encountered are quite varied when displaying a font to the user, from flash and image replacement to using a font file directly from your computer like any other web font. Font Replacement Technology also gives you the ease of mind that the text replaced is search engine friendly where the original text is either hidden or left intact for you and the search bot to see.

 

So I have selected three of what I consider the strongest, most flexible components of Font Replacement Technology for analysis, credit and more importantly highlighting all the snags I've encountered. Details of their requirements, features and potential issues will be published here one by one, and I will add links to these as they are published below this paragraph.