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The IE4 specific graffiti pages use Ribit and Ribit Flash, unpublished fonts by Vincent Connare. The third page uses Matura Script Initials by Monotype.
These pages demonstrate that with Microsoft's font embedding technology you are not limited to simple 'print preview' pages. The first page lets you enter text that is written to the screen using the Ribit font when you click the 'spray it!' button. This operation is processed on the client-side, so Internet Explorer doesn't need to access the server. The text is written to the screen in dark red as a drop shadow, and then a second layer of white text is added. The second page uses an additional font. Ribit Flash was designed as a background to Ribit. The characters in Ribit Flash are exactly the same width as those in Ribit. These matched widths mean that text layered using CSS absolute positioning should align perfectly.
Figure 1. Ribit and Ribit Flash include the same character set with matched widths for each character.
Table 1. The font objects used by the pages
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