Q:

What are some ways to speed up cufon's load time?

I'm using cufon for font replacement with jQuery for a site built on-top of drupal with a couple modules that tack on its own JS files.  There seems to be a flicker in the text that I have cufon applied to.  I'm profiling my JS in firebug and it looks like cufon is taking forever to load.
A couple things that I've tried:

adding cufon.now before the closing body tag
moved any cufon.replace from within $(document).ready() to including the bit of JS right after that element on the page.

None of that seems to be helping the delay.  Does anybody have any suggestions?

A:

Sure there is, add this just before </body> tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
Cufon.now();
</script>
Cufon.now will speed up the font loading, as well as prevent "flickering"

