Lovely typography on the web
Once upon a time, our web site Photoshop template was designed with Helvetica Neue Light for the body copy, and American Typewriter for the headlines. We had lofty visions of setting up sIFR, or another tool that would use some magic flash and javascript to render those fonts on the screen, making them available for the visitors who don’t have them installed (which would be most people!) Time passed, and in our latest web site content spruce up, I realized our web site needed new typography.
So, I decided to test out Typekit, and see if it was really as easy as my web design colleagues say. Well, it is! Get an account, find some typefaces, insert a tiny snippet of code, update the stylesheet and that’s it! I’m in love. Well, almost. The fonts render beautifully in Safari, newest Firefox, and IE7. They don’t display in Chrome on Windows, but do on Chrome for Mac OS, and not surprisingly, though they render in IE6 they look a little funky because they’re not anti-aliased.
What do you think? Can you see the new look? (By the way, the new typefaces are not Helvetica Neue and American Typewriter, even though I still love those.) Learn about the typefaces used on this site >
