FontShop announces that they are ready to deliver their font library as web type:

[S]tarting today, Typekit users can pick from dozens of FontFonts, including FF Meta, FF Dax, and FF Netto. Plus, the Typekit service lets you test any of those FontFonts on your page before you publish.

And tomorrow?

Typekit is just one piece of a holistic strategy for FontFonts on the web. The library should be licensable in a more traditional way too. That’s where WOFF fits in. … Soon anyone will be able to license and download for their website the same professional quality FontFont they use in desktop applications, but crafted specifically for the new medium.

Hat tip: Jason Santa Maria

This has been a belated part of Web Type Day.

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Filed under: Fonts, Web Design History, Web Standards, Web Type Day, webfonts, webtype

Ellen Lupton and Jeffrey Zeldman talk about web fonts, part 2. That is all.

This has been a belated part of Web Type Day.

Filed under: Design, Web Type Day, Zeldman, webfonts, webtype

Today in Print, Ellen Lupton interviews Jeffrey Zeldman (that’s me) on web typography, web standards, and more. Part one of a two-part interview.

Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. She is the author of numerous books and articles on design, a frequent lecturer, and an AIGA Gold Medalist.

This has been a nutritious part of Web Type Day.

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Filed under: CSS, Design, Fonts, Press, Real type on the web, Standards, State of the Web, Web Design, Web Design History, Web Standards, Web Type Day, better-know-a-speaker, creativity, industry, webfonts, webtype

Web fonts are here. Now what? In Issue No. 296 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Nice Web Type’s Tim Brown debuts Web Font Specimen, a handy, free resource to see how real fonts really look on the web; and Jason Santa Maria discourses on web type, showing how to avoid using fonts that don’t work on the web, and achieve graceful pairings of fonts that do.

Filed under: A List Apart, Design, Fonts, Formats, Jason Santa Maria, Real type on the web, Standards, State of the Web, Tools, Web Type Day, industry, webfonts, webtype

Tomorrow, 17 November 2009, I’ll be speaking at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, delivering the keynote address at its Interlab ’09 conference. Tomorrow is also Web Type Day at zeldman.com. Please stand by.

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