sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) is probably the most widely used technique for displaying custom typography on your websites. But Cufòn is a really potential candidate to "push sIFR of the pedistall".
Cufòn is really easy to use and its performans blows away sIFR. Also seems more reliable and stable in production and gives a more consistent result.
 
All you have to do

  1. Download the Cufòn script from http://cufon.shoqolate.com/
  2. Generate a Cufòn font via http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
  3. Insert the scripts into the header
  4. Call the JS on the selectors to be transformed, fx. Cufon.replace('h2.teaser-title')

Here's an example on how to use Cufòn:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
   <script src="cufon-yui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <script src="Frutiger_LT_Std_400.font.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
      Cufon.replace('h1');
   </script>
</head>
<body>
   <h1>This text will be shown in Frutiger LT Std.</h1>
</body>
</html>

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The SVG/VML canvas drawing method

By imarion (not verified) | 2011.05.12- 19:11

The SVG/VML canvas drawing method (used by Cufon and Typeface.js) has issues with text selection in some browsers, but has very good browser support generally. It doesn't support all text properties that CSS does. Cufon currently has support for more font types and browsers than Typeface.js does; otherwise they're functionally identical.

sIFR has some issues with flickering and relies on Adobe Flash being installed and activated, but has support for all the advanced rendering options, kerning etc, that Flash has.

Which is preferable usually has to do with how the rest of the page works.

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Admiring the time and effort

By Emelie (not verified) | 2011.06.01- 12:59

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