Creative uses for typeface in web design were limited until recently. Today's new operating systems have made it possible for website designers to move away from the limitations of using standard system fonts.Scalable Inman Flash Replacement, better known as sIFR text are giving many website designers creative leeway. In simple terms, sIFR text is a flash rendering technique whereby designers can replace on-screen text elements with flash equivalents. In order to display correctly on someone's web browser, sIFR requires the following: JavaScript and a Flash plug-in.