Great screencast….. just wished It was a little cheaper and there was a ‘Unlimited’ plan.

Thanks for posting, I have been too busy to try it out myself.

Nice run. I just picked up an invite to this and am excited to check it out more.

Hi Jeffrey, nice tutorial man, can you give me an invite please?

Sounds interesting!

What I would like to know about is: How much of an effect would this have on loading time on pages using this a lot?

I’d love an invite Jeffrey, thanks for the screen cast!

Hey! Can you give me an invite? Thanks dude, if you do choose! Also it looks extremely easy from you and Chris Coyiers preview.

Thanks Jeffrey. It does look cool and intuitive. Send me an invite. Would be grateful.

This looks like something I would love to use on two of my current web projects! Can you believe I’m still using image-replacement on my portfolio site? Gah! If you still have any invitations I’d love to join in on the service.

Also, your “unwrapping” approach was great; nothing beats a true, live, user test!

Pick me for an invite, this service looks amazing! Thanks!

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twitter: jakester2

Hmmm… Not sure I’m sold. I don’t really like the idea that the look and feel of my website would be dependent on a third party.

Hi Jeffrey,
very nice screencast, espacially to see your approach to “new lands”

Thanks for this tutorial Jeffrey, seems to be pretty straight forward.

I tried this two nights ago actually, and was impressed with the ease, but unimpressed with the fact that you can not upload your own font. If you do sign up for a paid account, can you please document with another screen cast, or just a type up, of any new features?

I am curious to know with the upgraded accounts what you get besides their full portfolio. How many fonts are in the full portfolio?

Very interested with the upgraded accounts before I purchase. I would appreciate your opinion.

Thank you!

Hi Jeffrey, I’d like one of those invites, please.

Really nice Screencast! Its good to see some easy alternatives to SiFR, CUFÓN and all of this services. I’m sure thats only matter of time to get this little thigs fixed.

Would love to get an invite! ^^

Good Stuff.

Nice screencast, just wondering if the Advertisement in the bottom right comes with all versions – might Purchase a copy

Thanks,
Ryan.

Hi Jeffrey,

Great screencast, as usual. Like the way your going through something new and sharing with us.

P.S. How do you get that nice clouds background on your Gmail account?

Wow!

Been using typetester.org to do font configuration.
This will fit nicely in my box of tools.

Thanks for the tutorial!

If there is some way to work around the hidden email, I allso have five invites willing to share here.

Looks good. I will try it too.

Nice video Jeff, I guess it’s better to see a live action of testing instead of watching almost automaticaly movements.

“Look into my eyes, in the eyes, not around the eyes, You’re under…
You pick me… 3-2-1 you back in the room”

Ahh.. yeah.. and I wanna stand into the “invitation-queue”:D

Great Feature. Because it don’t turn the text into images. The update time of the kit i thing it’s normal because the service is in beta.

Just is a little bit expensive (the portfolio value).

Hi there!
Thank you for this screencast, indeed. Before I did not have the time for looking aroud a little bit deeper in that typekit thing. This screencast was a great great help. Just go on. Do not worry about if this post would be popular or not. Sure it is! I am sure! If you still have any invitations I’d love to join…
Thanks a lot.

Looks good, I’m interested in checking it out!

Looks cool and all, but there’s already so many other font replacement services out there. Paying a monthly fee to use fonts that honestly look like I could get them from a free site doesn’t sound ideal, plus more JavaScript to load on the page…

@font-face works for me.

Hi Jeff,

I’m wondering what software did you use to record this screencast?

When you were recording with Camtasia on Windows, the movement of the mouse/cursor on the screen was NOT smooth like here.

In this screencast it definitely IS and it looks wonderful.

Culd you share a little bit?

Thanks in advance!

I am interested in an invite!

I enjoyed your ‘impro’ style very much on that one.

@Ryan

The advertisement is showed on basic free accounts, when you upgrade your account you will have the option to disable it.

One thing to mention, to show the advertisement typekit uses jQuery Framework so when you disable it it also saves up some loading time.

I would really like to use that technique for my next project. Have been waiting for such a great service…
An invite would be so appreciated

I am interested in an invite!

This looks promising….seems pretty easy.

I’m with Jason. This is an answer to a question nobody (sensible) should be asking.
From Cufon to SWIFR to @fontface (not to mention image replacement which has its specific place and purpose) who the hell needs a complicated offsite paid font interface??

If they’re FOSS fonts and the system is just using @font-face (and falling back to the stack for unsupporting browsers), what exactly are you paying for? An auto generated JS file? Why not just use @font-face in your css and hope your visitors have a modern browser. It seems like it would have the same outcome.

The downsides to this are the cost and the reliance on the typekit site. I would think that it would be better to use your own @font-face with fonts downloaded from somewhere like fontsquirrel.com. That way everything is under your control and there are no limits on the number of sites or fonts.

Michael Owens touched on this in his Aug 14th tutorial but maybe a full tutorial on @font-face would be in order?

Great screencast. I would LOVE an invite to this.

Invite please

waiting for typekit invite

Typekit is awesome.

I’d love an invite

I would love a typekit invite.

This looks really interesting, I would really appreciate an invite.

I would like an invite as well david@ramaboo.com

A really nice idea, i already heared some podcasts about it from sitepoint and it sounds good, i think its a good way for the type industry.

I want an invite too

Would be great to get an invite to have a play with this, count me for this one!

It’s be great if I could get an invite too.

Raises hand! I would like one

Gimme

This will make things a lot easier and better looking!

Looks like it could be a Cufon killer If they speed it up a bit. I wonder what it’s doing that takes 3 minutes to process..

Also, In the post footer (”Enjoy the post?”), I noticed that you guys have a bunch of counters. I can’t, for the life of me, find the FB Share counter.. Any help?

Seems quite nice, i have just been battling Cufon for a while now with assistance from your screencast on that subject, typekit seems much neater even though Cufon was quite good once i got my head around it.

So i humbly place myself in the long queue for an invite

Seems interesing, by now I’ll keep with Cufón, with some things is pretty useful.

Interesting service. I’m excited to see how it grows and evolves over time.

Looking forward to possibly being 1 of the 100 invites

Certainly believe this is a game changer, once everything is worked out and some more of the major foundries get on board (because I believe, eventually, they will) that this will change the face of our business – hugely for the better.

wanna give this service a try too!

It looks like an interesting service, I’d love to try it out for my own Webdesigns.

Nice, can’t wait to try it out. Now I can make use of all the fonts I get fron dafont.com

Wow. Let me participate!

Awesome!
I think I may start using their service for my future projects,
Thanks Jeff!

I would love an Invite. I might use this service in future projects.

Thanks Jeff.

I’d love an invite, if you have one to spare. I liked the “exploratory” screencast.

I’d be glad to give it a shot!

The biggest problem for me is that even on the “portfolio plan” you are only able to use the fonts on 5 sites. I have way more than 5 clients, and each of my clients tend to have more than one site, so what happens when I get to my 6th website? I have to upgrade and then I am limited to 40, at which point I can’t upgrade again.

Nice screencast. One thing I don’t understand though, is why would anyone pay for something that you can do for free. You can just use @font-face with packages from here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface

Besides, I don’t really like to rely to 3rd party for such things (what if the typekit server goes offline?)

However I do reckon that it might solve a lot of headaches, for now at least, especially considering how easy it is to use.

So yeah, I would love to have an invite if you can spare one, maybe I’ll end up loving this service (only idiots never change their minds)

I’d like an invite…

i just checked in from twitter and, well an invite would be really nice.

thank you
carrrramba

Can I have an invite please?

Also thanks for the screencast contest prize.

I really enjoyed the screencast, it looks like a good idea and would love to give it a go on some of my current projects. Would love an invite!

Thanks
Jen

Wow, typekit is awesome. If I don’t get one of the 5 accounts, I’ll for sure be purchasing my own.

I registered this morning for the beta but if you have this many invites I would love to use one

Thanks

NetTuts, I love you! I would love an invite to TypeKit! it looks amazing!

Jeff,

The fonts on the demo.jefrrey-way.com page don’t work anymore. According to your source code, it should be working. Do you know why?

It’s awesome this one… I’d tried to win an invite but i’ve lost… If u can send me an invite say how can i greet u !

I must to use it for a personnal project but i can’t !

How did this work out with the PC? I find it just as easy to make @font-face and use the MS tool WEFT and make the EOT fonts for the ones I like.

Although if you are on multiple sites typekit might be quicker for a developer to use.

I would love an invite! I’m so excited for the new possibities!

May I please have an invite?

Nice video as aways.

I hope i get picked to win an invite.

I’d really love that screencast, and no Jeffrey, you didn’t bore us

I’d like an invite if possible!

It looks a great idea and a bit easier than cufon, but I agree with some of the other posts that you are outsourcing, paying for, and losing control of the page style rather than just elements of additional functionality.

On the other hand, the ability to view and choose from a large amount of fonts without worrying about licencing issues and too much about implementation is appealing though for smaller or quick projects and the price for multiple sites isn’t too bad.

An invite to have a play with it would be nice, and it was another great video.
(I’m really looking forward to the next code ignighter one too!)

Nice screencast..would like to try typekit..please do give me an invite. Just wanted to know if the ‘diving into php” and “wordpress for designers” screencast have been discontinued? Thanks again

An invite would be great. Typekit seems to be much better than cufon and so on.

Typekit seems to be much more better then cufon, not even mentioning sifr(what a head ache). Can’t wait to try it!

It’s really exciting to know that this technology is just around the bend. Free us designers to use beautiful fonts!

If you have any free beta invites left please send one my way!

Would love an invite! ta muchly!

I’m interested in an invite.

who needs typekit? css3 ftw.

interesting, but i saw that it used @font-face in css, so it’s just a js version of css3, what’s the point of paying for it?

Hi Jeffrey,

If you still have a couple of invitations, I’d love to get my hands on one. Thanks for the cool vid!

Making post for choosing invite purposes lol jk

Thanks for all the work you do and for the calm voice too lol

(and you dont bore people lol)

It’s really going to bridge the gap of “Typographic Excellence” on the web. Amazing and it’s so simple to execute. Well done Typekit.

I’ve 4 invites for typekit

my email is luizin.alvaro@gmail.com

feel free to send me you request

Doesn’t work on Google Chrome 4

hi all,

those who are asking for an invite please go to http://typekit.com/

and enter your email address and wait for a reply.

Great screencast and a very interesting service. Still, I don’t like the idea of being dependent of an external service for the layout of my websites.

Hmm, well I don’t see much of a benefit in using this to just using @font-face. The only advantage i see is that you’ll most likely get a better selection of fonts. But the hundreds of free and open source fonts out there seems to be enough to me.

Maybe it’d be good for someone who designs a lot of websites, but even then I’m not sure.

Yours tuts are very helpful! Thx so much:)

It’s a great idea, but it would be even better if the cost in page size would be smaller.
High traffic websites can’t afford to add a ~200K for a single font upgrade.

Great screencast – sometime all you have time for is a very quick overview, so this was perfect.

Looks like a decent solution, if anyone has a spare invite, I would like to give it a try.

Cheers.

I’ve been doing a LOT of research on this topic, and this service for my company for a little while now. I can see absolutely no reason to use TypeKit over @font-face. None. Set up a WOFF, EOT, SVG and TTF font in your CSS file, upload the fonts and call it a day.

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface

Download a couple of fontface kits from FontSquirrel, explore the css & html, learn something and avoid loading unnecessary Javascript files and becoming reliant on offsite sources for your visual styles. This service is absurd. Good developers and designers are already worried enough about FOUT without having to load the fonts from an offsite source through Javascript.

The subject can be confusing, but do yourselves a favor and do the research yourselves. This is a horrible solution for web embedded fonts, when free of cost. Once you apply a monthly/annual fee, it becomes downright absurd.

Awesome screencast JW. I’m just about to go in and have a play around with it as well.

I’ve been working with Cufon on some sites this week and it really annoys me that it doesn’t copy and paste nicely. I’m sure they’ll fix that but TypeKit looks like a winner.

Thanks again for the invite to join Typekit!