Comments on: Typekit: Removing the Wrapping Paper

By: Bloggerzbible

Bloggerzbible — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:49:23 +0000

now i get it about typekit

By: Bronson Quick

Bronson Quick — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:37:00 +0000

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!

By: chris bautista

chris bautista — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:47:58 +0000

Thanks Olsen! Really appreciate it!

Going to test this ASAP!

Getting stoked again !!!

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:17:24 +0000

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.

By: Munjeet Singh

Munjeet Singh — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:07:28 +0000

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.

By: Yanay Zohar

Yanay Zohar — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:03:42 +0000

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.

By: Torkild Dyvik Olsen

Torkild Dyvik Olsen — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:38:13 +0000

I have sent one to you now!

By: straw

straw — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:23:57 +0000

Yours tuts are very helpful! Thx so much:)

By: Nori Silverrage

Nori Silverrage — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:00:40 +0000

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.

By: Portugese Wijn

Portugese Wijn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:37:03 +0000

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.