Did you ever get from your graphic designer a request to build a website of a web application according to his/her design including the strange (but nice and designed) font called “Myriad Pro” or some else non supported fonts by the common browser?!?
The common answer that I've responded always is: “Let go for Arial or Verdana – it’s supported by all browsers!!, or if you want let’s put an image text with your design – but remember it will affect SEO badly…!”
It seems that there is a beautiful solution for this “problem” which let you the ability to render every kind of font in the world in your website in order to get special, clean and “other” font layout.
The free online solution for this scenario is typeface.js. This solution let you upload your font declaration file into their website and the output will be a JavaScript file that hold all declarations of how to render the special non supported fonts.
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site's graphic text in the font you want, you can use this solution and write in plain HTML and CSS.
I recommend to give it a try – I did!
http://typeface.neocracy.org/