Typekit + FontFont
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- Dr_Sparkleshine
This is huge.
"Typekit users now have access to some of the highest quality typefaces in the world thanks to our new partnership with FontFont. We’re adding dozens of their professional fonts (like FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto) to all account levels at no additional cost"
http://blog.typekit.com/2009/11/…
Here’s the list. All of these FontFonts are available in Typekit now:
* FF Netto
* FF Tisa
* FF Meta, FF Meta Condensed and FF Meta Small Caps
* FF Meta Serif and FF Meta Serif Small Caps
* FF Dax, FF Dax Condensed, FF Dax Wide and FF Dax Compact
* FF Nuvo and
FF Nuvo Small Caps
* FF Masala Script
* FF Duper
* FF Folk and FF Folk Rough
* FF Mach, FF Mach Condensed and FF Mach Wide
* FF Market
* FF Enzo
* FF Prater Sans, FF Prater Serif, FF Prater Script and FF Prater Block
* FF Providence, FF Providence Sans and FF Providence Small Caps
* FF Cocon
* FF Brokenscript Bold and FF Brokenscript Bold Condensed
* FF Speak
* FF Dagny
* FF Typestar and
FF Typestar Black
- ismith0
What about all this WOFF stuff? Is it going to be integrated with TypeKit eventually or are we just going to forget about it?
- Typekit is a hosting and subscription service. They are format agnostic.
FontFonts will be available for license in WOFF format from FontShop soon.Typographica - FontFonts will be available for licensing in WOFF format from FontShop soon, but the wide browser support for WOFF is a couple of years down the road.Typographica
- ...couple years down the road.Typographica
- I know, I just don't understand the hype behind typekit with WOFF on the horizon.ismith
- Typekit is a hosting and subscription service. They are format agnostic.
- ukit0
I don't know if a service with a monthly fee is the right approach for this. OK great, I use typekit on my site, what happens a few months later when they decide to raise their rates? Or if their service goes offline? They will have you by the balls at that point...
Why not focus instead on better encrypting for fonts that can then be used on an individual user basis rather than requiring a call to a centralized server somewhere?
- This is how the foundries get on board methinksDr_Sparkleshine
- kinda like ASCAP or BMI in the music industryDr_Sparkleshine
- It's imperfect, but it might be what it takesDr_Sparkleshine
- Yeah...f*ck ASCAP and BMI, I hate those guysukit
- The alternative to a subscription model is WOFF, which foundries support. What we're waiting for is browsers other than Firefox to support it.Typographica
- ...support it.Typographica
- Ravdyk0
why not just be able buy web fonts like you buy the normal font upload to your own server and be able to use it
- Search for WOFF or try this: http://hacks.mozilla…
It's basically a web-only export of your OT font. Sounds great yeah?ismith
- Search for WOFF or try this: http://hacks.mozilla…
- Typographica0
I tried to answer via notes above but I should have just posted here:
The alternative to a subscription model is WOFF, which foundries support. FontShop already announced that it will release WOFF fonts soon: http://fontfeed.com/archives/fon…
What we all have to wait for is browsers other than Firefox to support it. Safari probably won't be far behind. This leaves IE which could be 5 years behind. IE will either be left in the dust or sites who care about reaching all browsers will have to rely on free fonts via @font-face or a service with built-in encryption like Typekit.
- ukit0
Thanks for the info...I nabbed this link from the FontFeed post.
http://www.edenspiekermann.com/w…
If you have the Firefox 6 Beta, you can see WOFF in action on that page.
- Dr_Sparkleshine0
"IE will either be left in the dust or sites who care about reaching all browsers will have to...."
Isn't this the story of the web for the last ten years? And sadly, we all need to build sites for IE, so I think WOFF will be behind Typekit and similar technologies in adoption, sadly enough.
- raf0
Are you going to use Typekit? I understand once you stop paying, your sites' nice headings stop working? Are you tied into this scheme forever?
Let's say you take the top plan, serving up to 40 sites for $249 per year. Some of your clients will not change their sites in years, but you have to keep paying for their Typekit. Do you charge them for it annually? Every time you add another 40 sites, your annual bill is increased by $249..
Suppose you do 40 sites per year, your annual bill @ year 5 is $1249.95
No big deal if you do this amount of work, but if you go out of business, all your customers' sites are screwed, aren't they?
- Typographica0
Your clients pay for the service just as they do any other monthly/yearly service. It's not a new concept. Chalk it up to "hosting services" if that's easier to communicate.
- ukit0
Does adoption of a Typekit style model of distribution mean that all typographers are compensated equally? I'm assuming we would have access to all the fonts at the flat rates advertised on the site. That would seem to be a pretty big departure from the current practice of the industry, where fonts prices vary quite a bit.
- gramme0
woot
- peteski0
trail account me
- http://thisisnthappi…peteski
- *trialpeteski
- Nice! I've been following you for a while. I'm at http://stewf.tumblr.…Typographica
- Your heads might also look good in a thin weight of FF Enzo http://typekit.com/f…Typographica
- raf0
I wonder what WOFF pricing will be.
- Typographica0
For a small-medium traffic site, not very different from a desktop license. Pricing from FontFont soon.
- Interesting.. does that mean pricing will be per-site and linked to traffic?raf
- Not necessarily. But licensing for CNN.com will not be the same as that for a Tumblr blog.Typographica
