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Text with gradient and custom font

Ok here is my challenge, I have some <h1> tags that I want to convert into a custom font and apply a gradient from left to right.

Initially I was going for the idea of using cufon as this does both, but it turns out cufon only supports top to bottom gradients.

My only other option as far as I am aware is sIFR which I believe may support this, but its not preferable.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I have looked at typeface js which doesn't do gradients (I think) and CSS3 like moz-linear-gradient but this doesn't support applying it as a color.

Thanks!

Solution

  • Can't you just manually hack the cufón code to change gradient direction for now?

    I haven't tried or tested this myself, but I suspect the lines you'd want to change would be something like:

    @973, for VML implementation
... fill.angle = 270;

@1364, for canvas implementation
... fill = g.createLinearGradient(viewBox.minX, 0, viewBox.maxX, 0);