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Yeah, it is only base64ing the woffs. The reason I post it is that it has all the benefits of this project (only CSS) without the downsides (being ridiculously hard to use).

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Not all the benefits. It requires web font support. I don't see this as a huge downside, but it is a fairly big difference.

is there any browser that supports transforms (skews), but doesn't support web fonts?

Not that hard to use; just replace each letter with a span tag.

It's a simple regex substitution or map().

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