Introduction to Typekit

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Introduction to Typekit

Mark Poppen gives us an introduction to Typekit, a new service allowing designers to use custom fonts on their pages.

By Mark Poppen on November 23rd, 2009 in Tutorials |

Typekit is a new service for embedding fonts. As quoted from their website:

This will change the way you design websites.
Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

In this video Mark Poppen introduces Tyepkit and shows you just how easy it is to use.

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About The Author

Mark Poppen

Mark Poppen is a freelance web designer from a small town in Canada. Obsessed by the design of web sites he tries to keep the highest standard possible in the process of creating a web site. He started fiddling with web sites around the mid-90's and has received several degrees since then. He likes to create the website for the grocery store around the corner, or the hairdresser down the street. Personal contact is one of his favorite aspects of the way he's doing business.

Comments

Jason said :
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:38 am
Its a nice intro to typekit. I will definitely have to try it out. Enjoyed it.
I have a 2 criticisms. It would have been nice to have had a more stable view point. The screen moved around a lot. cmd+tab would of stopped you from having to keep dropping to the dock.
The second comment is at the web squeeze. The video box should be bigger. I mean, its only taking up 2/3rds of the space on the screen and the only way to watch it is to blow it up full screen.. would be nice in future if videos were big enough to watch them without having to hit the fullscreen button.
Karinne Legault said :
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@Jason – The size of the video has been fixed! Thank you!
Mark Poppen said :
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
@Jason Good point. I kind of noticed it myself too. I’ll have to play with some settings in the screencast software to make it less “springy” as well. And yes, cmd-tab would help too
Thanks for the comment!
Jessica said :
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Hi! Thank you for the video on Typekit. It was very helpful. It really isn’t that hard but I really had no idea what I was doing at first since I had never tried it before so a visual was perfect. Thanks so much!!