Re:Just My Type
by ohgodthecat on Wednesday May 02, 2012 @09:06PM
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People use things like typekit and fontdeck because it is cheaper than buying the actual fonts and they also provide highly available hosting for decent pricing.
If you want to serve them yourself and pay a one time fee you actually can do that with most of the typekit fonts but the fee is actually much more substantial than the yearly fee for those services.
What I'm really looking forward to though, in term of web typography, is a broader adoption of the font-feature-settings CSS property.
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-feature-settings-pr...
http://caniuse.com/#feat=font-feature
> Let’s face it - Helvetica rocks. But unfortunately, we can’t ensure every user sees it.
Is there something special about Helvetica licensing that prevents you from purchasing and embedding just like any other font?
Helvetica's webfont license is exclusive to Monotype Imaging available under a web font license here: http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts?fontQuer...
So the short answer is no there isn't anything that special.
there's also fontsquirrel and fontspring($) for fonts. the typekit monthly cost turns me off. i prefer free or one-time fees.
If you want to serve them yourself and pay a one time fee you actually can do that with most of the typekit fonts but the fee is actually much more substantial than the yearly fee for those services.
Where can I find similar resources?
Getting to know typography a bit makes surfaces way deeper and I'd like to dig.
http://pinboard.in/t:typography/
Tag queries can be limited to popularity as well.
http://pinboard.in/popular/t:typography/
Off the top of my head, you'll want to check out:
- Google Web Fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts - Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/typography/
http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/
One of my favorite typography sites: http://fontsinuse.com/