As designers we live in great times: we have @Font-Face for font-embedding, there is webkit for font delivery and fontshop is about to start their webfonts. So why should anybody still want to use a flash-based font-replacement-hack? Well, this site uses my own flash-based font-replacement method, which is basically a big, ugly hack, and there is a reason for it: It is the only option to use Matthew Carter's beautiful Gallliard on this page without breaking any license-agreement. And as I didn't want to use SIFR (I dont think I'll ever get it) and I wanted Actioscript 3 with its advanced font rendering capabilities, I found myself developing my own font-replacement method in the end.
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