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Just My Type

daneden.me

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I must say I recently fell in love with Minion Pro and I'm really grateful that it's available on Typekit.

What I'm really looking forward to though, in term of web typography, is a broader adoption of the font-feature-settings CSS property.

What do you mean? @Font-face is completely adopted by browsers.

S/he means font-feature-settings.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-feature-settings-pr...

http://caniuse.com/#feat=font-feature

You think you're in love with Minion Pro? Wait until you see Bell Gothic... Woo, hot mama!

Excuse me if this is a silly question, but I don't get this:

> Let’s face it - Helvetica rocks. But unfortunately, we can’t ensure every user sees it.

Is there something special about Helvetica licensing that prevents you from purchasing and embedding just like any other font?

I think this site is trying to highlight/advertise fonts in the Typekit.com stack.

Helvetica's webfont license is exclusive to Monotype Imaging available under a web font license here: http://webfonts.fonts.com/en-US/Project/ChooseFonts?fontQuer...

So the short answer is no there isn't anything that special.

Non-Typekit links to the fonts that are available for free elsewhere would be appreciated.

http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/league-gothic

there's also fontsquirrel and fontspring($) for fonts. the typekit monthly cost turns me off. i prefer free or one-time fees.

People use things like typekit and fontdeck because it is cheaper than buying the actual fonts and they also provide highly available hosting for decent pricing.

If you want to serve them yourself and pay a one time fee you actually can do that with most of the typekit fonts but the fee is actually much more substantial than the yearly fee for those services.

Chrome on Linux seams to have some issues rendering the text. It overlaps in some parts.

I think the issue you are experiencing might be related to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=66073, a bug in Chromium on Linux which causes text to overlap.

Thanks for linking to that.

I. Want. More Of These.

Where can I find similar resources?

Getting to know typography a bit makes surfaces way deeper and I'd like to dig.

For topical searches like this, I find that pinboard is a great place to start.

http://pinboard.in/t:typography/

Tag queries can be limited to popularity as well.

http://pinboard.in/popular/t:typography/

Off the top of my head, you'll want to check out:

- Google Web Fonts: http://www.google.com/webfonts - Smashing Magazine: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/tag/typography/

Also this --> http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

Thanks guys +1