Trying Out Typekit
Typekit finally makes using high-quality fonts on the web viable, highly compatible, standards-based, and simple!
I just got an invitation this evening from a newly launched service called TypeKit, which is basically a font subscription service for use in embedding high-quality fonts in web pages in a way that is both very attractive and standards compliant. As far as I know, it's the very first service of this kind.
It took me less than 15 minutes to setup a free trial account. I designated the domain that would be using the service (doodlemonger.com, of course), inserted two lines of javascript into my template headers, and built a simple font "kit" using a nice sans-serif font for my post headers and a serif font for my pull-quotes and targeted them at the CSS selectors to which I wanted to apply the fonts (in my case, I used the M+ 1c and Vollkorn font faces on with the doodlemonger.com #main_body h2 and #main_body .entry .entry_pullquote CSS selectors, respectively). It worked perfectly on the first try and the results are very compelling.
I'm very excited about this service! Typekit finally makes using high-quality fonts on the web viable, highly compatible, standards-based, and simple!
I really hope this company does well. It's a laser-focused service on a niche that they're flat-out pioneering as a business model.
They're not 100% open to the public yet, but you can put in your email address at typekit.com to (hopefully) get a trial account as I did. Unfortunately, I don't have any invites to give out!