Comments on: Typekit Web Fonts

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:23:31 +0000

I’ve been using Typekit for some time and it is brilliant. Until every browser supports @font-face it will be my choice of font replacement =)

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:12:41 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:59:38 +0000

Say it ain’t so, Matt checks-in code for bbPress

http://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2117

(Very happy to see more involvement again)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:32:46 +0000

I agree with Otto. This is an awful solution for a simple problem.

By: MeGo Moo

MeGo Moo — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:30:14 +0000

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

By: MeGo Moo

MeGo Moo — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:28:21 +0000

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.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:37:20 +0000

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?

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:41:23 +0000

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?