Comments on: Quick Tip: Tuning Condensed Fonts with WebFont Loader

By: Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:30:01 +0000

Follow Up: If you play with something long enough, you’re bound to break it. Thanks to Sean M. at TK for a detailed support letter that helped me get back in line after I got in over my head with a jumbled collection of code that not only crapped out on IE, it put the FOUT on steroids.

By: Mike Ferguson

Mike Ferguson — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:06:46 +0000

I’m still awaiting word from beta testers, but this trick APPEARS to have saved my TypeKit experiment from being a well meaning disaster. I sent out the newly minted pages for review and a surprising total of users saw font madness; I’m using a condensed font in my Kit and so sizes when way-big for them.

That being said (and again assuming my testers return with good news; I can’t replicate it locally), this solution is still no match for users that disable JavaScript. Or as I call them, troublemakers 😉 I don’t count myself among them and I’m sure it’s mostly uber-goober tech types but we still want uniform rendering across the board.

See for yourself: http://healthqwest.us/

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:54:13 +0000

In reply to Steve Dennis. Hi Steve, if we can help you figure out what's going on, send a note to support@typekit.com with a URL where you're experiencing this trouble.

By: Steve Dennis

Steve Dennis — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:01:21 +0000

I’ve been having huge issues with the fonts jumping all over the place using WebFontLoader and the hooks, even when fonts should be fully cached. Curious as to why you’re not using this method on your live site at the moment Jason?

By: Tim Brown

Tim Brown — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:50:11 +0000

In reply to gailsserenity.

I’m sorry you’re having trouble getting started, Gail. Just send us a note at support@typekit.com with your blog/site’s URL and we’ll help out.

By: gailsserenity

gailsserenity — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:21:26 +0000

I chose the fonts, I bought it, I paid for it. I have no idea how to use it and no one is explaining it in my language which is English. Help!!!

By: tercüme büroları

tercüme büroları — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:13:04 +0000

lovely fonts…

By: John

John — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:40:13 +0000

This is very useful. In fact, I’m preparing my site for use with Typekit-delivered fonts. The typeface I’d chosen for extended text is smaller on the body. Increasing the size would have made for a too-large fall-back. Now I can have my cake and…

Thanks.

By: Andy Croll

Andy Croll — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:47:53 +0000

I sort of discovered this by accident. When the JS was failing on my site the Typekit fonts weren’t loading so I have gone down the .wf-active route as well.

By: Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:10:38 +0000

In reply to Eric Eggert. Yes, like I said above, you can approach it either way.