Graphic Design Blog > Nice Web Type - Some facts about web fonts

[Nice Web Type] Typekit serves fonts via CSS using @font-face, and makes it reliable and easy. The code served by Typekit is standards-compliant, and is updated automatically for you as often as browsers and web standards change.

Previous [Previous] Officer Elections 2010 - Quark...

Next [Next] 50+ Free Fonts Download Websites Roundup | designrfix.com...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Unmatched Style] Practical steps for using @font-face in your websites now ...: So again, we've decided we want to use it, we've got it in there, but we have to decide which fonts we can actually use. A lot of the font foundries have been traditionally wary of @font-face, and a lot of their licenses don't explicitly allow @font-face because if you link to a truetype font and you look at the CSS, you can actually go and just download that font.

[Mitch Canter is [studionashvegas]] FLIR, Cufon, Typekit, or SFIR: Breaking Away From Web-Safe Fonts ...: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement was developed by web-pioneer Shaun Inman as a way to easily replace one font with another using a combination of Flash and JavaScript. The first obvious drawback to sIFR is the word “flash”, which means that iPhones can’t view the text. 

[Wired: Compiler] Typekit Hopes to Become the YouTube of Fonts | Webmonkey | Wired.com: The other possible problem is that Typekit will require adding “a line of JavaScript to your markup.” Hopefully what that means is that you’ll need to embed a license checking script.

[The Typekit Blog] Buy fonts at FontShop, host them on Typekit « The Typekit Blog: Your time in gathering or creating fonts that PC’s CRY for in creative writing or designing are not included anywhere on my computer (but then you are dealing with a tech-challenged individual). But, honestly, with my Macintosh, I have hundreds of wonderful fonts that were fun to do Desk Top publishing with, for the public and promotions of my own businesses.

[The FontShop.com Blog] Features: Buy Web FontFonts at FontShop.com, <br />Host Them on ...: If you’ve got ClearType activated, web font rendering in IE is fairly comparable to Firefox in Windows, the exception being kerning, which only Firefox supports. But, yes: web fonts, just as any other text, will render a lot more cleanly in Mac OS X than any version of Windows.

[uproot-blog] @font-face the Facts: For proper @font-face embedding both IE 4+ (that’s right) and now Firefox 3.6+ are ensuring that web fonts are being delivered securely through the web and not usable on desktop systems. Where the support is lacking for both Safari and to a lesser extent –

[PelFusion.com] A Guide To Typography On The Web | Fonts | PelFusion.com: With the future of web typography and its promise of an expanding landscape through services like Typekit and developments like @Font-Face, both of which will be talked about more later in the post, web designers are hoping for a day when they will not have to concern themselves much with the issue of only having a handful of web safe fonts to work with. However, though this new day is working its way onto the horizon, that time is not quite here yet.

[Programming Blog] My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit - Programming Blog: But, given my druthers, I’d rather see millions of websites using standard @font-face to link to self-hosted web-licensed fonts than see that same number of fonts using a service””even a brilliant service created by friends for whom I wish continued, deserved, great success. It must be a quirk of mind;

[Leah Culver's Blog] Typekit fonts on TypePad - Leah Culver's Blog: For example, I keep all the fonts for this blog in a Kit with blog.leahculver.com as the domain. This means that any fonts I add to the Kit can be used at blog.leahculver.com.

[scot hacker's foobar blog] Web Fonts: The Time Has Come ”” scot hacker's foobar blog: The question was still “How to let the author's fonts appear on the reader's screeen?” EOT was opened up by Microsoft, adoption started to creep upwards. After 15 yrs we got to a whopping 18 fonts.

[The Typekit Blog] Screenshots of all our fonts in every browser, on every platform ...: Since launching Typekit in August, we’ve been offering our early users lower prices at all account levels. It’s our way of saying thank you for supporting our service as we grow and add new features.

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, ,