Some days ago I read the great Simon Collison talking about Typekit, I had never heard about it so I decided to make some research.

Typekit is a service that solves most major font problems on web design. As you may know when designing a site you find yourself  limited to use only web safe fonts to make sure most users will see your design properly. The problem with it is that the list reduces to less than 10 fonts.

To fix that, web developers incurred in text-replacement methods that take your dynamic text and return some kind of image or flash output with the fancy font you chose.

And even better, on CSS 3 we have the marvelous @font-face property that allow us to use a specific font we upload to the server calling it directly form the CSS file, and works on most decent browsers.

All that sounds great for us but not for typeface designers because you can download the font directly from the server of the site is using it.

So here’s where typekit has all the solutions, they are associated with a buch of type designers that allow you to use their fonts on your projects. And even better you can use them from your stylesheet and they will look great on most browsers, yeah, including that one.

Of course all this work isn’t free, but you can make use of a trial account to test those functionalities, and even the bundle account isn’t expensive at all.

It is very simple to use, you have a control panel to define the selectors you want to apply the font as a default or they give you the font-stack to add to your stylesheet.

The only thing you have to do is to add two lines of javascript they provide you to include the typekit call and you’re done!

I strongly recommend giving this service a try and avoiding any licencing problems. They have a lot of fonts to fit your design perfectly.

Well that’s my experience using typekit using a trial account.

Thanks for reading!