Recently, my sister offered to keep my kids for dinner, which meant Wyeth and I got to order wings from our favorite place for wings: C.R. Wings. The last time I had checked out their web site, it was under construction. This time, however, the site was live and I immediately noticed the headlines were using a unique font not normally located on most web users’ machines. I happen to have this font, so I dodged over to Wyeth’s computer to see how the site degraded without the font. While there were a few headlines that displayed in verdana, the bulk of the site’s display text (headlines, pull-quotes, etc.) stayed true to the original designer’s vision (even though Wyeth didn’t have the font loaded on his machine).
Being the geek that I am, I viewed the site’s source to see what technology was used to achieve this feat, and found it to be sIFR. While I had heard of sIFR a while back, I hadn’t given it much thought at the time and haven’t seen it in use since. Upon seeing it on the C.R. Wings site, I knew I had to share this information (AFTER I ordered my wings of course 
– “Butter and Old Bay” is my favorite flavor in case you were wondering).
So the next time you’re looking for an easy way to add some pizazz to your site’s display text, check out sIFR. (And if you’re hungry, how ’bout some wings?)
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