How can I use custom fonts in an HTML5 Canvas element?

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I’ve thrown together a simple demo on jsfiddle here showing how to do this with @font-face: http://jsfiddle.net/zMKge/

Opera also has a simple tutorial on using <canvas>, including the text API.

CSS:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'KulminoituvaRegular';
    src: url('http://www.miketaylr.com/f/kulminoituva.ttf');
}

Javascript:

var ctx = document.getElementById('c').getContext('2d');
var kitty = new Image();
kitty.src="http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae30/rte148/891blog_keyboard_cat.gif";
kitty.onload = function(){
  ctx.drawImage(this, 0,0,this.width, this.height);
  ctx.font="68px KulminoituvaRegular";
  ctx.fillStyle="orangered";
  ctx.textBaseline="top";
  ctx.fillText  ('Keyboard Cat', 0, 270);
};

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