The following section talks about the WP sIFR plugin.
You are probably aware that web pages use a limited set of fonts. Your word processing program allows you to choose from a wide variety of fonts—as many as are installed on your computer. So why can't you use these fonts on your web page? Since a web page needs to be available to users with many different system configurations, there is no way to be sure which fonts they have installed. The solution has been to use a set of web only fonts that are standard on all systems.
New solutions are in place today to deliver rich typography on the Web, including fonts outside of the standard web-only font families. In this section, we'll explore sIFR, or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement. This new technology uses Flash to recreate and replace text you've tagged to be "sIFRed." WP sIFR allows you to use custom fonts on your WP blog. WP sIFR version 0.6.8.1 is authored by Jake Snyder. The plugin homepage is...