Comments on: Use your Typekit account on unlimited websites

By: Ann098

Ann098 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:51:45 +0000

Can I “publish” the fond to just one of my blog pages? One of my blogs is not active and the other two are non-english. I haven’t been able to “publish” the fond that I picked…

By: bintzia

bintzia — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:44:16 +0000

Hi! I have chosen a font from type kit and published it few hours ago but yet I can’t see that yet ! Plz tell me what shall I do?

By: Blake

Blake — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:35:20 +0000

I am a recent graduate with a disability living in Mississippi. I am on a tight budget of $674 a month in the form of a Social Security check. Web design jobs in my state are scarce but I can’t move elsewhere. Customers know almost nothing about the Web or design and aren’t willing to pay more than a few hundred dollars. So I mostly volunteer for local charities (http://stopsma.org/). It’s been hard to get any good experience. Buying fonts was off the table for me.

You have opened a door for me. Thanks.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 18 May 2010 21:35:04 +0000

This is amazing, I’ve been holding off from using it on many of my clients’ website because of the domain restriction. I’ll be subscribing for life now!

By: Bryan Mason

Bryan Mason — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:42:39 +0000

In reply to Eric.

Eric –

We split revenue with the foundries just as we always have. Nothing about that has changed.

In the past, each subscription type was limited in its use based on bandwidth (which was hard to understand) and number of websites you could authorize (an artificial constraint, really). We’ve switched to a much simpler method of tracking usage: page-views per account.

Our goal is to compensate our foundry partners based on the scope of use for their font. And whether it is 1000 sites that get 1000 page-views a day or one site that gets 1 million page-views a day, we compensate the foundries the same way.

We took some inspiration from the way that FontFont is licensing their web fonts; based on page-view limits per account/organizations, not number of URLs. This seems to be the easiest way to balance foundries’ need to manage scope with the customers’ need to manage/track use.

This change is intended to make it easier for people to use fonts on the web – which is good for all of us.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:06:40 +0000

Again: How does this impact the contracts you have with foundries and font designers? Are their royalties also getting slashed?

By: Gabe Diaz

Gabe Diaz — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:34:37 +0000

Wow this is great news, time to finally upgrade my account! Thank you TypeKit!

By: Tuhin Kumar

Tuhin Kumar — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:22:17 +0000

Wow, this is good news. Looks like finally I will be hooking on to Typekit, to power my Art Directed Posts! 🙂

By: Russell Bishop

Russell Bishop — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:08:19 +0000

Excellent news!

It’s great to see that you guys are really opening up what you can offer to the public, what a comfort to think that more and more people will be implementing beautiful type on the web!

And the price drops are very generous, I should think we at Digital Results will be snapping up an account in no time!

Cheers TypeKit!

By: Willo

Willo — Wed, 12 May 2010 02:41:47 +0000

This is GREAT news! Now that I’ve launched my first Typekit site – http://thesocial.org – I’m excited to integrate TK/custom fonts into others. I hadn’t yet signed up for Portfolio, but will be soon, *especially* now knowing my $49.99/yr will go even further, and I don’t have to decide which lucky few websites will get prettier. 🙂

Thanks so much!