Next up: Typekit
Last summer, I started Small Batch Inc. with my long-time friends and colleagues Jeff Veen, Ryan Carver and Greg Veen. The organizing principle for our company was simple, we wanted to explore the most interesting ideas happening on the web and follow them wherever they took us. We produced an awesome event, worked with our friends at Twitter (a little start-up you’re certain to hear about someday), and we launched Wikirank as our first project.
In April, we turned our attention to a whole new idea — and I think it’s going to surprise some folks. It’s called Typekit, and it’s a service designed to help bring typography to the web. Imagine how dramatically web design will change when you can use any typeface without rendering it as an image or Flash file. We’d like to be a part of that. If you want to know more, Jeff wrote up a great post over on the newly minted Typekit blog, so go have a look.
This is so exciting.
And I am happy to hear that this is on the works by people who have shown a passion for the web, and not just a huge monster trying to gobble such nice ‘new’ feature on modern browsers.
Keep the updates on this endeavor coming!
And thank you, thank you, thank you!
Bryan,
I’ve been waiting to try typekit for awhile. Amazing concept. I hope you can answer a question or maybe encourage someone to get back to me soon.
Thank you.
Size of kit flexibility _ Must be a common problem doesn’t seem to have been answered online, tech support seems like their are busy.
Configuring kit editor to minimize download size for any particular page in
our site
Using one (1) kit
Can I use one font on a certain page (say home page bold only font =25K) and
then same bold only font 25K + another font (this time standard only another
25K) on an interior page)? [total of 50K but never more then 25K at a time,
even for both partial fonts on the interior about page in the use case I'm
describing here]
That way the user has only to wait for a 25k download the first time he
navigates to our site (1 font on the home page) and then when they navigate
to the about page only have to wait for another 25k to load to support (2)
partial font families displayed on that second page.(the about interior page
in this use case).
Using two (2) kits(2)
If the answer is no the user must load the entire contents of the font kit
(in this case 1 bold 1 regular partial font families 25k + 25k = 50K) even
only one font is to be used. Can then we use two font kits? (1 kit for the
initial load of 1 font, the second kit kit for the load of just the second
font?)