Forum Home Enhancements - Custom Font Forum Titles (Cufon)

Spice up your forumtitle's with custom font using Cufon text replacement.
I tried this in my forum works just fine under default vB4 (Should work for vB3 too.)

- Download the Cufon library, i have used YUI compressed library. also attchd.
- You need to generate font script now, It is recommended you use Free fonts.
10 Free fonts for Cufon.
You can generate font js file using this generator http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/
For ex: i have added Museo_500_400.font.js with this attchmnt.

UPLOAD Both these files to forum root folder.

- edit headerinclude and add these scripts.

find:

<script type="text/javascript" src="{vb:stylevar yuipath}/yuiloader-dom-event/yuiloader-dom-event.js?v={vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>

add after:

<script src="cufon-yui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="Museo_500_400.font.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            Cufon.replace('h2');
        </script>

And walah your forumtitle's will be now replaced, all h2 declarations in your forum will be changes to Museo 500 font.

Changing Multiple heading.
You can change as many heading you want but you just need to assign a font family to it.
For ex:

Cufon.replace('h1', { fontFamily: 'Museo' });
Cufon.replace('h2', { fontFamily: 'League Gothic' });

IE explorer annoyance
In most cases, there is a short but visible delay before the text is replaced. You can avoid this issue by inserting the following snippet right before the closing </body>.

<script type="text/javascript"> Cufon.now(); </script>

Live Working Demo

[Sean James]

Thank you for this, i am using on a skin i am doing.

The font size is very small, how do i increase it?

[sensimilla]

I have made same thing on my site with http://typekit.com/fonts

no need to upload files and its easy to cusotmise.

Thanks for your share.

[GameVB]

im having problems with this

http://diablobillionaire.com/community/forum.php

[legion!]

when i change the font it doesnt have its hover properties...

[addamroy]

This doesn't work for me, doesn't do anything. Running vb 4.1.12