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Filed under: Asides | Tags: bryan mason, jeff veen, typekit, typography | May 29th, 2009
Typekit Web Fonts
Introducing Typekit, an iTunes-for-fonts on the web that allows you to have rich typography in your designs and pages without resorting to flash or image hacks. (Old time readers will remember my yellow design which used Dante, the original WordPress logo font, and generated-image titles.) Typekit takes advantage of the current and upcoming browser support for embedded fonts and abstracts away all of the complications thereof like Feedburner did for feeds. Brought to you by my friends at Small Batch, previously of Adaptive Path, Measure Map, Start, and Wikirank fame. The people building the web have been waiting for this. ¶
Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
Otto | May 29th, 2009 @ 11:41 am |
Ugh. Javascript? Yuck. Better to simply get your own fonts and use @font-face in your CSS instead.
I also don’t care for the idea of a central repository for fonts. Whatever happened to the open idea of the web?
Amy | May 30th, 2009 @ 6:37 am |
This means that most phones and some computers still won’t see the pages as they’re meant to be seen. There’s no better way to do this?
MeGo Moo | May 30th, 2009 @ 5:28 pm |
I thought there was a cross browser problem where FF supports one type format and IE supports their own.
HTML 5 may fix this but only if browsers are upgraded…. probably best to put your special text in images and content in a standard font.
MeGo Moo | May 30th, 2009 @ 5:30 pm |
Well also WP already had or has a plugin to generate Permalink text in headlines using GD and an Uploaded font… that is reasonable
Other then that learn flash or something heh
Ryan | May 31st, 2009 @ 7:32 pm |
I agree with Otto. This is an awful solution for a simple problem.
Tim | June 1st, 2009 @ 9:59 am |
Say it ain’t so, Matt checks-in code for bbPress
http://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2117
(Very happy to see more involvement again)
Otto | June 1st, 2009 @ 10:12 am |
There is a cross browser issue with web fonts, in that IE only supports OpenType (an odd name, since it’s a font with DRM embedded in it, but hey, that’s Microsoft for you), while everybody else supports TrueType fonts. But this is easily solved by simply including both of the font types in the CSS, then letting the browser pick the one it can use. This works just fine, there’s no need for javascript detection and such.