Cool Font tricks

I was just curious. Instead of using a head gif if anyone uses cool font tricks to make text look like logos?

 

there are some options, and many cool fonts out there.

The only problem with using a neat looking font is that if someone doesn't have it installed on their computer, it wont display, or will default to a standard font.
You could make a cool background and use css to overlay text on the image so that it looks like its part of the image.

 

You could always use sIFR to display any font on anyone's computer.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

 

Holy bloated workaround batman. I love it when people find creative solutions, but wow...

I did a substantial amount of research into the subject of embedding fonts, and there once was a few viable solutions actually.

For IE you can grab a copy of WEFT. I've never used it because it's an IE only, but it's there. And only IE supports .eot.

The most promising solution I could find was the possibility of finding a program that produced .pfr files which may or may not be compatible with FF. I couldn't find a straight answer when I looked. The company that produces this software had no trace of a download link on their site when I looked, and still doesn't. For those interested, it was Bitstream.

But as far as using fonts for logo's, I do it quite often. I'm big on image calls - as in saving them. So the more I can do without images, the better.

 

do you have examples of how u make these non-image logos. that is what i am looking for. thanks

 

Give me an example of a log you want done without images.

You can use special characters like â™  along with large font sizes and some well positioned/sized divs to create some pretty good looks. Here is a complete list of special characters you can use: