Another way to use custom fonts

Typekit is a service that allows you to connect custom fonts to site pages. It is strange that he has not yet met on the pages of his beloved Habr.



We register, after registration a trial account will be available. All the others are unfortunately paid. Next you need to create a kit - a plug-in that contains the library itself and css selectors. A whale, depending on the plan, can be used on several sites at the same time. The trial whale includes only 2 fonts and 1 site.

We are informed that now we can connect the kit to our page:




Hint: if the project uses jQuery you need to write - # hash # .js? Nojquery = true

Next, select the fonts we like and add to the whale. (The View button allows us to immediately see the font options, as well as what the future inscription will look like).



In the window that opens, select the options - font styles, css selectors and replacements if the browser does not support @ font-face.
CSS selectors can be either .tk-font-name, or h3, #id. This will save a little time without writing custom selectors in html.



Well, then everything is as usual ...

From the pros:
1. Smaller size in comparison with other solutions.
2. No need to convert your fonts.
3. Text can be highlighted!

Of the minuses:
1. Paid.
2. There is no way to use your fonts - but you can send it to the developers.
3. (and most important for us) There is no implementation of the Russian language yet.

It remains to be hoped that in the future the service will receive a serious CDN, support for Russian-language fonts and other useful features.

PS The day before yesterday, the service was open to everyone, but I will gladly hand out 10 available invites.

UPD Typekit Investments:

Small Batch has raised an undisclosed round of equity funding from True Ventures with Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake, WordPress / Automattic Founder Matt Mullenweg, renown investor Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Josh Felser and Dave Samuel participating. Small Batch is launching Typekit, a service that lets designers build sites with web-native typography.