this is definitely off topic but it's something I just found out and find rather "surprising"..
I mean given that I even wrote my own Canvas solution for shadows and looked into various solution on howto use custom fonts this is really easy.
So I just wanted to let you know before trying to create/use a fancy script for shadows or custom fonts maybe just take a look and hopefully it will be way easier than you expected... :p
http://www.delusionworld.com/webdev/cross-browser-shadows-and-fonts-with-css-only/


