The webfonts thread

Vaskerville

It's nice that this is finally happening. I found another foundry of foundries (whatever I should call it) of webfonts yesterday. Some good ones...the real ones.

Webfonts@Font.com

It's in beta, and surely they will charge in the future (hopefully not too much), but it has a really nice way of creating a font set for a project and providing it to you with a piece of javascript.

They let me in the beta almost immediately...too.

chris

aha! (i signed up too) ((also, HELLO!))

i did change the H1s here to the Lobster font (available from the google webfonts suppository), and everyone really fucking hated it, which was nice.

nicko

I signed up too.

Welcome vaska

Vaskerville

Hello!

Folks I work with are always asking for the real stuff...Neue Helvetica Light No23489567239847329874, Trade Gothic, etc...etc...and it looks like this is starting to happen. Google has some nice ones too...

The only problem is that three fonts and you are probably over 120kb...you do need to be very limited with your selections.

Vaskerville

I'm pretty sure I'm late to this party, but came across another one as a client was asking me if they could use Omnes on their project. I was surprised to find it was possible...

WebInk <= sort of an offputting name to this...

peak'

Yes, I'd seen web ink, not tried it ...I think we can expect Linotype to do something soon too, I got an survey trough the email the other week and the slant was all web fonts...

(I'm a real web fonts virgin, having done nothing, with custom fonts, since M$'s web embedding technology of, oh, how many years ago - who remembers that .eot files, that's right?

CPU

i still embed my comic sans headlines as gifs :D

peak'

CPU said...i still embed my comic sans headlines as gifs

:happy: :happy:

And talking of disliked fonts... have you seen this post on Michael's blog

chris

Web font services - An Overview