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A comment on Typekit launches.

Re:Typekit launches by kevinholesh on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @12:41PM (#933499)
Typekit is an excellent service. It allows designers to accomplish some awesome clean looking designs.

Example: http://bobulate.com/

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Re:Typekit launches by flooha on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @01:13PM (#933571)
Curiously, the fonts on that page didn't render particularly well for me (Vista/Firefox)

http://imgur.com/uHeAq.jpg

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Re:Typekit launches by hellotoby on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @05:25PM (#934096)
Unfortunately, for me anyway, the text on that page is really difficult to read and seems somewhat blurry. Perhaps not the best example...
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Re:Typekit launches by timb on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @01:08PM (#933556)
On that site I can see a sort-of flash of unstyled content as the font loads, but that doesn't seem to happen on Typekit's own pages.
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Re:Typekit launches by kevinholesh on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @01:12PM (#933568)
It depends on how fast Typekit's server responds. I'm sure it is extra slow today. I did some unofficial benchmarks on the service while it was still in beta:

http://iloveusability.com/usability-review/typekit/

It'll be interesting to see how well their servers perform under a heavier load.

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Re:Typekit launches by ErrantX on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @01:18PM (#933584)
That's put me off a lot; I'd expect them to be using a service that is very stable to scale now they have launched.

The fact their own site is intermittent today is worrying.

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