# As if by magic

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**Created:** [April 23, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-if-by-magic/223555 "2007-04-23T21:42:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![hmmaah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@hmmaah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hmmaah)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as-if-by-magic/223555/1 "2007-04-23T21:42:50Z")

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Ok - call me an idiot. I can live with that. But I’m not exactly new to flash or website design generally. However there is one thing that has continued to be a mystery to me and thats using bitmap fonts within flash. I know that this is a much debated issue and that for fonts looking crisp one should use pixel fonts yadda yadda yadda.

But then i keep seeing websites that are obviously using bitmap fonts - and manage to get them looking as crisp and clean the eighties was.

Two examples.

[http://www.sigarett.com](http://www.sigarett.com)  
[http://www.specialten.tv](http://www.specialten.tv)

I’d love some help with this - is there a trick they are using? Is there something I am obviously missing? Did they buy speial fonts? Or is my eye-sight failing me?

Any help would so much appreciated I can not tell you.

Many thanks.