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We’ve just added a batch of new fonts to the Typekit library, including some amazing classic typefaces you’ve been waiting for.

P22 Type Foundry

P22 is renowned for its work with museums and foundations to ensure the development of accurate historical typefaces, and we’re excited to add a few beautiful examples to Typekit’s library. Starting today, you’ll find fonts designed by historic figures like Frank Lloyd Wright and Benjamin Franklin, including the iconic P22 Underground — the type used in the London Underground. In addition to P22’s typefaces inspired by art, history, and science, they now distribute fonts from Lanston Type, Rimmer Type Foundry, and The Sherwood Type Collection, among others. We’ll be adding many more fonts from their collection in the future. Here are a few highlights of what’s available now:

Giambattista Bodoni created this modern typeface in 1790 which served as the structural model for Sol Hess’s faithful rendition. Hess made necessary adjustments for mechanical typesetting on Lanston’s Monotype composition system. This font was remastered in 2006 by Paul Hunt.

The legendary sans serif design developed by Edward Johnston for the London Underground system in 1916 is available for the first time as a commercial font in an exclusive arrangement with the London Transport Museum. The font is true to the original design.

P22® FLLW® Eaglefeather® is based on the alphabet designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the “Eaglerock” project in 1922. The full range of weights and styles allows for expanded typographic possibilities in a wide variety of uses.

This font was created in collaboration with the Philadelphia Museum of Art to coincide with the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary. It includes faithfully reproduced letterforms digitized directly from images of impressions made by Benjamin Franklin and his printing office circa 1750.

T.26 Digital Type Foundry

Founded by Carlos Segura in 1994, T-26’s once experimental fonts are now considered mainstream. T-26 offers numerous original fonts, and we’ve stared rolling out the first few today.

Automate is a futuristic, geometric sans serif font designed by Anuthin Wongsunkakon in 2008. Anuthin is one of the founding partners of Behaviour Group Inc., a design firm based in Bangkok, Thailand and considered Thailand’s first design studio with full typographic service.

Minerva Modern is a modern, sans serif typeface designed by Gábor Kóthay, a Hungarian type designer, multi-disciplinary artist, and teacher.

Aurea Ultra is a bold slab serif font was designed by Mario Felicianoand just begging for some nice big headlines to announce.

The annual South by Southwest conference is happening in Austin, Texas, this weekend, and Typekit will be there. We’re co-hosting a big Web Fonts Meetup and will be participating in a number of panels. Here are the details:

Party: Web Fonts Meetup

Join the Typekit team and co-hosts Font Bureau, FontShop, and Webtype for geeky conversation about fonts, the web, and more. There will be demos and a DJ. Plus, we’re buying drinks!

(512) 524-4291

Panel: Web Fonts — The Time Has Come

Typekit’s Jeffrey Veen will be joined by Roger Black (The Font Bureau), Bert Bos (W3C), Stephen Coles (FontShop/Typographica), and David Berlow (The Font Bureau) for a lively conversation on the current state of typography on the Web, plus a look at the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Panel: Is Canvas the End of Flash?

Greg Veen, Typekit’s front end development geek, is leading a panel discussion on the pros and cons of both Flash and the HTML5 Canvas element. Considering the recent Flash-free iPad announcement, you can expect a lot of interesting debate in this session.

Panel: Eight Ways to Deal with Bastards

And finally, our own Bryan Mason will lead a discussion on how to deal with difficult professional situations. His panel of seasoned pros will consider what to do when you’ve got bad employees, difficult partners, and troublesome customers.

Hope to see you there!

We’ve been getting lots of requests for new fonts from our foundry partners, so this week we’ve added a bunch of them to the Typekit library.

First, Mark Simonson’s fans alerted us that the popular Proxima Nova had an additional weight that Typekit was not yet serving. Mark was more than happy to provide it, so you’ll see that we’ve added Light and Light Italic. It’s perfect for those times when Thin is too thin and Regular is just too fantastic.

We’ve also added Brevia from Hannes von Döhren at HVD Fonts in Haumburg. Fellow Germans were demanding it, and Hannes was happy to oblige.

And finally, two new additions from our friends at The League of Movable Type. For open source font enthusiasts, we’ve added the elegantly thin sans-serif Raleway and the futuristic Orbitron.

Please keep the requests coming, and we’ll keep adding fonts. Let us know here in the comments, or via Twitter: @typekit.

It’s hard to believe that it has only been three months since we launched Typekit — so much has happened in the webfont world in such a short time. We’ve been inspired recently by beautiful redesigns, increasingly sophisticated browser support, and many more foundries choosing to embrace @font-face.

In particular, our friends at FontShop have been moving quickly to bring their amazing collection to the web. As of today, they’re selling web licenses to hundreds of fonts from their FontFont library in WOFF and EOT format. And, we’re excited to announce that if you buy any of these fonts from FontShop, you can use it with your Typekit account. Absolutely free.

This means that the fonts you buy from FontShop can now be used on the web with all the browser compatibility, standards compliance, and rock-solid hosting you’ve come to expect from Typekit. Plus, you’ll still have our libraries of high quality fonts as part of your subscription — and we’ll keep growing that library, offering new fonts from more and more foundries.

Our integration with FontShop couldn’t be easier to use. Simply follow a link to Typekit once you’ve completed the checkout process. Your new fonts will be instantly transferred to your account, and linked through the simple line of code you’ve already added to your site. They’ll automatically work in every browser that supports @font-face, including those that don’t support WOFF or EOT, like Safari, Chrome, and earlier versions of Firefox. And we’ll seamlessly upgrade them in the future as browsers evolve their webfont support.

We’re humbled that so many of you have chosen Typekit to help you bring real fonts to your web sites. And we’re happy that we can offer you even more flexibility and choice through our partnership with FontShop.

Browse the full catalog of web fonts from FontShop.

Starting today, our friends over at Six Apart have made it incredibly easy to use Typekit with their TypePad blogging platform. Now, you can use fonts from our library to customize the hundreds of beautiful TypePad templates.

TypePad has always been a great choice for hosted blogs. They are pioneers in the blogging world, and offer a different plans that include support and loads of features. Once you’ve got an account, click on Settings — you’ll find Typekit integrated in the Add Ons section. If you need help getting started, we’ve written a tutorial for you.

Want to see some examples of Typekit on TypePad? Six Apart founder Mena Trott’s fantastic Sew Weekly uses fonts from Mark Simonson. Hewn and Hammered features Chunk from the League of Movable Type. And Stephen Coles told us it took him just 10 minutes to update his beautiful blog, The Mid-Century Modernist.

Got a TypePad blog? Get started here…

In response to many requests, we’re happy to announce that Jos Buivenga’s foundry exljbris Font Foundry is joining Typekit, including the very popular Museo, Museo Sans, and Museo Slab . Based in Arnhem, Jos makes his fonts free for all users and that’s what we are doing as well- all exljbris fonts are available in all Tyekit subscription levels.

In addition to the Museo family, we’re adding the robust and and elegant Anivers , the clean and contemporary Calluna, and the beautiful Fertigo Pro and Fertigo Pro Script.

Also joining Tyekit is Typefolio, an independent Brazilian type foundry established by the designer Marconi Lima. Its foundation was motivated by the desire to offer to the international market typographical projects that prioritizes the quality in technique, functionality and aesthetics.

The first font from Typefolio is Adriane, a font with unique typographic details that provide both personality and excellent legibility at small sizes.

Go have a look!

Have you tried the Readability service yet? The concept is simple: whenever you land on a web page filled with flashing ads and a cluttered design, just hit the bookmarklet and it will reformat the page into a beautifully calm and highly legible template. It works on most any site, and makes reading on the web a joy. We’ve been using it for quite a while and can’t imaging living without it. David Pogue agrees, too. In his New York Times column, Pogue praised the service, saying “It completely transforms the Web experience, turning your computer into an e-book reader. I think I’m in love.”

And now there’s even more to love. A new version of Readability just launched and now includes Typekit fonts. That means you can apply a couple of our most legible fonts to any page on the web. Here’s how the team arc90, creators of Readability, describe the new themes:

Our new Inverse style features Betatype’s wonderfully readable Apertura. In addition, we’ve created a fifth style called Athelas which features – well – Athelas, an elegant font by Typetogether. Both fonts are available through Typekit.

Our goal with Typekit is to bring beautiful typography to the web. We think Readability is another excellent way to achieve that. Try it out now!

Using real fonts on the web is turning out to be pretty amazing. You get all the benefits of HTML — searchable, accessible text that loads quickly — with visual appeal that used to required images or Flash. But you also get a whole new set of choices and browser compatibility issues to deal with.

Using Typekit smooths out a lot of the hassle that comes with embracing a brand new technology. We serve the right fonts to the right browser, and account for occasionally inconsistent implementations. But recently, a lot of people have been noticing that not all fonts are right in all situations. Some fonts are optimized for small, readable text; others have a personality that really shines when displayed large. And some fonts render differently in different browsers and on different operating systems. It all can be really confusing.

To try to alleviate some of these issues, we’ve built a new feature that we’re pretty excited about. Starting today, you can now view screenshots of every font in our library in every browser that supports @font-face. Want to see how FF Meta renders in IE 6 on Windows XP? How about Skolar in Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu? We’ve got it covered. Just navigate to any font on Typekit and click on the “Browser Samples” tab. You can click through the collection of font rendering samples and get a good sense for how that typeface will perform in various settings. And we’ll be adding more combinations in the future: Chrome is up next, and Firefox 3.6 will follow soon after.

What do you think? Is there any way we could improve the feature? Let us know in the comments. Thanks!

Earlier today, the Mozilla Foundation released version 3.6 of Firefox. While that may sound like an incremental release, it represents a significant milestone in the ongoing story of fonts on the web. This marks the first browser to support the emerging Web Open Font Format, or WOFF.

This new standard font format was debated and refined for months, and we announced our support as consensus emerged. As we said back then, a standard based on collaboration that embraces the web’s native openness is a good thing.

So that’s why we’re not just voicing support for WOFF, but building it into our service. Over the next few days, Typekit will start serving WOFF files to Firefox 3.6. If you use Typekit to serve fonts on your website, you won’t need to do anything. Your users will automatically get the right fonts for their browsers. And if the format or browser support changes in the future, your CSS and fonts will be seamlessly upgraded.

Web standards are important, but keeping up with them can be a challenge. That’s one of the reasons we think Typekit is valuable — we’ll keep you current and compliant so you can focus on being creative.

Update: We’ve extended this offer until February 15 at midnight PST. But no longer! That’s it!

Since launching Typekit in August, we’ve been offering our early users lower prices at all account levels. It’s our way of saying thank you for supporting our service as we grow and add new features.

Soon, we’ll be changing our rates and some of the details of how Typekit accounts work. Before we do that, though, we want to give you the opportunity to get these lower prices, and also to make this special offer: Sign up now for a paid plan and we’ll lock in your subscription price for the lifetime of your account.

We won’t raise your rates next year or any time after that. If you’ve already got a paid account, you’re price is locked in as well.

Got two minutes? Sign up now!