Custom Fonts on your website: Fast, Free and Cross Browser compatible, with TTFGen

Definitely worth checking out, TTFGen provides a great way to embed custom TTF (true type) fonts on your website. The TTFGen script uses a PHP image renderer and your TTF giles to generate the image. The generated image takes parameters from your CSS file, and even includes support for rollover images.

It’s Fast Because it Displays Rendered Images, not Flash Objects

I used SiFR for a long time and the reason I didn’t stick with it was because of the amount of system resources and load time associated with the flash objects.

Fully SEO Complaint

Because it replaces text found within HTML tags, it is fully SEO compliant.

Tight CSS Integration

All of the parameters that generate the image are modeled after the standard CSS font parameters. So any styling that you do in your CSS will be reflected in your image.

WordPress Integration

For the not so technical, the is also a WordPress version. I’ve been using TTFGen on this website for a while and I recently switched to the WordPress version because it’s easier to manage.

Font Caching

Going back to my SiFR argument, once the image is generated, it is stored in a font cache folder on your webserver.

Benefits of the TTFGen WordPress Plugin Interface

• Ability to Upload and Manage Fonts via a web interface
• Ability to define and manage CSS associations without knowledge of jQuery
• Make changes on the fly
• Easily specify the replacement of div IDs, classes or full elements
• Ability to easily whether or not the text is a link, and your desired rollover color

Where to get it?

TTFGen is a free download, available at www.ttfgen.com