Comments on: Typekit now serves more font weights and styles to Internet Explorer

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:25:12 +0000

“IE was called upon to display a bold or italic style, it would synthesize that style by thickening or slanting the glyphs”

Unless I’m misreading your chart (and I very well maybe) you still haven’t solved for this. You now allow users to specify normal and light weights from the same family in IE8. While handy, it still doesn’t fix the issue with bolding. Light and normal as a differentiator is not the same as normal and bold.

That said, I like your service, and understand the difficulties with browsers and font-rendering, look forward to updates in the future so I can bill and use on client projects.

By: Paul Howson

Paul Howson — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:24:38 +0000

We need to get beyond the “only two weights at a time” limitation, selected via “normal” and “bold” weight settings. This means being able to include a range of weights in a Typekit kit AND being able to reliably select which weight you want (i.e. more than two options) across common browsers. Seems like that goal is still a long way off?

By: Mandy Brown

Mandy Brown — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:08:02 +0000

In reply to B. Moore. We're working on IE9 support. Details to come.

By: B. Moore

B. Moore — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:23:25 +0000

I know it’s way early but have you been testing IE9 yet? Is it going to have the same issues as above or did micros**t get it right for the 1st time?

By: Catherine Azzarello

Catherine Azzarello — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:18:14 +0000

As usual, Thanks!

I cannot say enough good things about Typekit. 🙂