You can use any font in your collection; you’re no longer limited to the fonts on your visitor’s computers.
A quick “View Source” shows that there are no extra <span> tags or id attributes in HTML. You don’t need to manage this method at all. Just add a single <script> tag to your document’s <head>, and you’re done.
Invariably, we need to change the content of our websites. Why spend time re-creating graphics to go along with them? With this method, just update your HTML, and the graphics are automatically updated as well.
The images can be cached, which means this technique is usable on higher traffic sites!
You can set the settings for a particular selector directly from the javascript file, or, you can setup the defaults in the PHP.
Click here to download an archive containing everything you need to make this work. It relies on PHP to generate PNG files. Thus, you need the GD lib installed. After PHP 4.3, that is the case by default.