Forget cufon and sIFR, Typekit is the new web font
!update (6th December 2009) example 2 has been removed I’m working on a site revision and a new post about typekit as I’ve upgraded my package to include more fonts.
Type kit isn’t available to the public yet but I’ve been one of the lucky few that have been given early access to use Typekit before its released to the world.
Its comes in different packages, I’m using the trial account at the moment, this only gives me access to the trial fonts which consists of about 60 fonts from various font houses.
Their is a trial, personal and full access font level which gives you access to more fonts, but the latter 2 is where you will need to part with a small amount of cash.
To implement Typekit on a website you just need to put 2 lines of code into the header so it can include the Javascript files needed to load the fonts.
Example 1
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Example 2 – XXX
The big advantages over Cufon and sIFR is that the fonts get used in a native way which means that its selectable and will work in thw same way as any normal font on your page, they just look better.
The bad news is compatibility, I’ve not full tested but it should work in Firefox 3.5+, Internet Explorer 5+, Safari 3.1+ Opera 10 looks a little odd but may be fixed with fully released and it should work in Google chrome.
Any chance you have any invites to send out?
Should be able to sort something out
Thank you!