This might be old, but how great is it. Paint your screen. I am intrigued at some point to find out what solenoids are that 'control paint-emission', Audi Design Foundation, Design in Action publication.
Love this! Every student, designer, person has to have the ability to immerse themselves in type physically rather than just mentally. .
Typekit is great. and easy, free way to use fonts of your own choosing and not get defaulted to times or arial or verdana, on any cross browser, even a plugin for your wordpress.
I saw it used with the NY Times Skimmer previously posted and it wasnt too difficult to coordinate with your CSS <h1> <h2>is how they are assigned.
Think mine was body ext, museo sans (quite robust, with many weights, styles i.e. italic, bold). Then the curvy header font... erm Anivers.
Really easy! Use it, and keey the ones I use for free, for ever.
Start by browsing the free fonts http://typekit.com/libraries/trial
'Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.
Typekit is the easiest way to use real fonts on the web. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries. Our fonts are served from a global network on redundant servers, offering bulletproof service and incredible speed. And it couldn't be easier to use. Want to know more about fonts on the web? Read on...
So here’s the situation: Every major browser now supports the ability to link to a font. That means you can write a bit of CSS, include a URL to a font file, and have your page display with the typography you expect. For designers and developers, this is a significant step forward. No longer will you need to trap your content in images or Flash just to express yourself visually. Pages will be more usable, accessible, and indexable. This is a massive upgrade for the web.
But there’s a problem. While it’s technically quite easy to link to fonts, it’s legally more nuanced. Almost all fonts are protected by copyright — even those available for free — and very few of them allow for linking via CSS or redistribution on the web. This is understandable; font files represent countless hours of finely detailed labor. Appropriately, type designers are concerned that they’ll lose control of all that hard work.
That’s where Typekit comes in. We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM.
As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.
Typekit is produced by Small Batch Inc., a company dedicated to advancing what's possible on the web. Founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Veen, Bryan Mason, Greg Veen, and Ryan Carver, Small Batch is a San Francisco-based company that has been designing and developing web apps together for years. In 2006, the team built Measure Map, the acclaimed blogging statistics tool that was acquired by Google. While at Google, they led the redesign of Analytics, a powerful website measurement tool used by millions worldwide. Since then, they collaborated with Twitter on user experience and business growth planning, and launched Wikirank — a trend analysis tool for Wikipedia. Additionally, they’ve been involved in W3C working groups and the Web Standards Project as proponents and active designers of the web’s infrastructure platform. In 2009, the company announced their first round of funding led by True Ventures.'
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Typekit badge
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Here's the plugin that I found and use on my wordpress blog.
Typekit plugin for WordPress
This is a convenient way for WordPress users to use the Typekit font service in WordPress web sites. This will enable users to change the fonts of their sites with least amount of time using the Typekit service. Further this plugin will give the ability to control where the typekit will be used in their site (whether in the front page, static pages .etc).
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/typekit/
In reference to aesthetics and the data functionality Bradford Paley created Text Arc (fig 95) a system for visualising literary texts states ‘beauty [form, aesthetics] is neither an alternative to function, nor a bolt-on extra. The two bear a more subtle relation to one another: “beauty is a personal goal, but I believe that it came from the accurate and comfortable representation of data”’ (Centaur Publication, 2008, p. mar – 50).
The aesthetic is needed to make it worth looking at see the whole functionality. DIDI.com. (2001). Digital image design incorporated - A TextArc is a visual represention of a text—the entire text (twice!) on a single page. A funny combination of an index, concordance, and summary; it uses the viewer's eye to help uncover meaning.