Sunday 19 October 2008

HTML Canvas Fonts.

Quite a bit has been written about this for sure...

Like this

http://canvaspaint.org/blog/2006/12/rendering-text/

and very usefully this

http://canvaspaint.org/blog/2006/12/rendering-text/

SOOOOooo..

I started hacking around and made this http://canvas.burnttoys.net/bauhaus.html

And (with just a small shake of the code) this http://canvas.burnttoys.net/bauhaus-outline.html

L8rz,
BT

3 comments:

c3o said...

Neat!

burnttoys said...

Thanks! I'm trying to figure out how to get SVN running on my server so I can commit new changes quicker.... that aside I've added a few brackets and a few symbols (important math and C things) and tidied up the numbers a little - it's even a bit faster!

F1LT3R said...

I've been doing some things with Canvas and fonts myself: http://hyper-metrix.com/processing-js/docs/index.php?page=Cross-Browser%20Canvas%20Fonts, http://hyper-metrix.com/processing-js/docs/index.php?page=Lucida-Like