non standard web fonts
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@Jordy;
Replacing text with images using CSS is staple technique used by most front-end web developers. When an image replacement technique is used, the text is either hidden or moved off screen, and an image is put in it's place using CSS.
Because the text is still available on the page, and the image is only made viewable using CSS, the text is still fully indexable by search engines.
In many cases, this text can also even be accessed by visitors who use screen-reader software.
There are many different flavours of image replacement (IR) - it's worth researching which are available, because there's usually a degree of compromise involved with each.
In actual fact, cufon itself makes use of a form of image replacement to replace text with either a VML or canvas rendering of whichever typeface has been chosen.