In what some believe to be as tremendous as the creation of the Web browser itself, sIFR has been released. Designed to take font/text to the next level, on the surface it looks a lot like a typical image of some text created in a photo program. Upon closer observation, you will see that it is in fact something totally new.

It’s been well over ten years now since the debut of the graphical Web browser and we still don’t have an easy way to deliver rich typography using HTML/CSS. With CSS we can size, style, color, kern, show, and hide our text but we can’t deliver something classical typesetters have delivered since at least the 15th century: custom typography. Until now. In concert with Shaun Inman and Tomas Jogin, I am releasing into the public domain a scalable, multiline, Flash 6 compatible version of IFR to help you reduce the amount of browser text in your life and free the world from the scourge of Arial.