Typekit is gonna be huge

May 28th, 2009

You know what’s the best thing about the Internet? That it keeps changing. Techniques we use, time we spent on doing stuff – everything gets better and better.

Right now probably the hottest topic on building websites is a little CSS thing called font-face. As more browser supports embedding fonts based on the URLs, more people wants to use it. And that’s an awesome thing – ability to use fonts you want on you web page without not accessible at all Flash and other techniques trying to do that way around. But the main issue with embedding URLs, is licensing. Trust me, there is not lot fonts we can use freely without legal consequences on our web page.

And even if we try to remain clean, it all takes too much time - finding proper fonts and dealing with its license troubles. Fortunately, this is all about to change thanks to Typekit.

This amazing thing has been announced right here and will hit the web this summer thanks to @veen and rest of his crew.

From this time, all you’ll have to do is browse Typekit resources for amazing fonts and add one line of code just where you need to. Then, enjoy your favorite font without worrying about being legal. It pretty much solves every problem we previously had.

Now it all lays in keyboards of smart guys behind the idea to make this thing work good for users and promote it. And there you go, web is all yours.

Experience of browsing websites is gonna be so much better after this thing. I promise you that.