This week in Sites We Like, a couple ways to brighten the world with plants, soft knittings, and lightweight body text.
Garden Tribe
Garden Tribe is here for the novice gardeners among us who could use a little more guidance. (Did you know it actually is possible to kill succulents? Anyway.) Futura PT is a great header choice here for bright, no-nonsense labeling, and it pairs nicely with the thin weight of easygoing Macha.
Knit for Peace
Knit for Peace has another great example of a thinner weight performing nicely in body text. In this case, it’s Museo Sans in use; do the wide, …
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Follow @adobetypeFont loading update: All HTTPS, all the time
If you opened up the kit editor today, you may have noticed that the default and advanced embed codes have changed. Instead of the protocol-less URL we recommended for years, we now recommend a HTTPS URL only. We’ve also changed our kit JavaScript to load all resources over HTTPS.
We’ve made this change as a response to the recent vulnerabilities and exploits in the OpenType and TrueType font formats. A malicious attacker could use these vulnerabilities to modify a Typekit font while it is being transmitted from our servers to your browser. Serving fonts (and other resources) over HTTPS ensures that the communication channel between …
Read postWOFF2 support added to Typekit
As part of our ongoing work on improving our web font serving performance, we’re adding support for the WOFF2 font format. The WOFF2 format succeeds the ubiquitous WOFF format and offers better compression than any other font format.
Before adopting WOFF2, we’ve extensively tested it on our font library and have seen significant compression gains over WOFF. On average, WOFF2 compresses 30% better than WOFF. The improved compression rates mean smaller font files, which in turn result in faster-loading fonts.
To get support for WOFF2, you’ll need to republish your kit. You can do this by going to your kit management page and pressing the …
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