Customize your WordPress blog with Typekit fonts
December 22, 2009
Got a blog at WordPress.com? Now you can use Typekit! We’ve just rolled out a way to easily use fonts on the world’s largest blogging platform. With Typekit and WordPress working together, customizing the look of the nearly 10 million blogs they host now takes just a few clicks.
Log into your WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance in the left-hand navbar. There, you’ll find “Typekit Fonts” with a place to add your Kit ID (available under “Embed Code” in the Typekit Editor). That’s it — you’re ready to go. You can choose fonts from our rapidly growing library to add them to any of the WordPress themes to give your blog a distinct look.
And of course, Typekit works with WordPress blogs you host yourself. That’s getting easier as well, now that the WordPress developer community has begun to release plugins for Typekit. Check out the options over at the plugin directory.
December 22, 2009 at 10:54 am
Good job guys. That’s a huge move. Good type on the web everywhere is quickly becoming in our reach!
December 22, 2009 at 11:34 am
Wow great news. Can’t wait to give this a go.
December 22, 2009 at 11:58 am
and I was just browsing your site today! well done. Good design is coming within reach of the masses.
December 22, 2009 at 12:58 pm
This is outstanding news. Typography, ahoy!
December 22, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Just wanted to point out that there’s also a WordPress plugin for the self-hosted version of WordPress for Typekit and it also works with WordPress MU: http://wpmu.org/typekit-for-wpmu-%E2%80%93-new-free-plugin-available/
December 22, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Tumblr next, please
December 22, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Great!
December 23, 2009 at 5:24 am
This is gr8 news to hear about, i think it’s more than a GIFT from SANTA on this X-MAX…..merry christmas to you all there…keep it up guys you are doing great deed…….:)
December 23, 2009 at 8:54 am
That’s good news
December 23, 2009 at 9:44 am
Great set! Thanks for these! TypeKit is a great example! Thanks!
December 23, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Bless You!!! I thought I was going to have to learn html or something. This is wonderful news!!!!
December 23, 2009 at 4:40 pm
very thanks.. i’ll download the plugin…
good news…
December 24, 2009 at 8:14 am
A big step. Congrats.
December 25, 2009 at 7:17 am
Sorry don’ take it bad (i don’t have any regret to pay for Typekit
) but i think this 2 plugins do not have a practical value to WordPress, it enable you to activate the script or not.
It would be great if you could t pick up and manage the fonts library trough WP , and especially enable the script with a check box when you write a post/page, in order to avoid 800k (example) during the page load.
December 26, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Going to give it a try on http://corettajackson.com!
December 27, 2009 at 4:54 am
Do the typekit fonts cover non english characters?
I am interested in classical Greek fonts.
Thanks in advance.
December 29, 2009 at 9:27 am
Not yet. We’re working on supporting expanded character sets and should have some changes to announce soon.
December 29, 2009 at 9:46 am
I am surly gonna have a try! Thanks for this post!
January 12, 2010 at 11:43 am
doesn’t work for my site.
January 12, 2010 at 3:56 pm
It doesn’t work on my site either and I’m not sure why. It’s very frustrating.
January 12, 2010 at 4:44 pm
I assume you mean the WordPress plugin (either self-hosted or at wordpress.com). I’ve had good luck with Typekit in general but haven’t tried these plugins yet. One thing to make certain of is to check to make certain your browser is supported. I believe Chrome and Safari are not yet supported. Beyond that, you should follow up through the regular support site – http://getsatisfaction.com/typekit/
January 12, 2010 at 6:56 pm
I have not been able to use Typekit yet (new blogger), though I’ve tried. I have Windows Vista and use Internet Explorer, so was surprised that this browser was not supported.
Anything I can do in the meantime?
Thanks!
January 13, 2010 at 1:53 pm
I can’t make this work. It’s useless.
January 13, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Works for me. Tried it on a WordPress.com site without issue.
Things to remember:
1. Publish the type kit.
2. Make certain you have fonts hooked to classes/ids
3. Make certain you have the correct type kit id entered in the plugin
4. Make certain you aren’t using Chrome/Safari to view the site.
January 13, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Thanks for posting that, David. Those are the steps to try. We’ve also written some notes about our WordPress integration here:
http://typekit.com/help/wordpress
BTW, the latest beta release of Chrome supports @font-face. As has Safari for a while now.
March 5, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Please help, Typekit!
I’m a little lost: In the http://typekit.com/help/wordpress link (from the Jan. 13 post above) it reads:
You can do that by opening up the Typekit Editor and clicking on Embed Code. Copy the Kit ID and paste it in the appropriate place in.
I have a typekit ID according to “Typekit Fonts” under “Appearance” from WordPress, BUT WHERE IS THIS “TYPEKIT EDITOR”, that I’m supposed to paste the ID into? I don’t see it anywhere on your site, or on WordPress.
Would love your product if I could figure it out. I think your WordPress help instructions need a serious overhaul.
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