Comments on: Update on Monotype fonts

By: Liz Galle

Liz Galle — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:29:00 +0000

In reply to PETE.

Thanks for your interest, Pete! We’re not building an email list, but we will announce new information here on the blog and on Twitter (@typekit).

You can also reach us at support@typekit.com if you have any questions in the meantime.

By: PETE

PETE — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:35:35 +0000

Is there an email list we can sign-up for to get an alert of when they are ready? Looking forward to having Univers on board. 🙂

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:01:41 +0000

I really appreciate the blog post above because now I have an idea about the timeline and can lean back waiting until summer. Thats the way companies should keep their customers informed. Great!

By: Kevin Sherman

Kevin Sherman — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:13:08 +0000

Thanks for the update! I’m excited to use Monotype’s fonts and look forward to this release. I second the inquiry about what it will cost, but I obviously understand that you can’t talk specifics yet and regardless, it would probably still be a very affordable option.

Loving TypeKit and excited for it to get even better!

By: Ramanan

Ramanan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:27:10 +0000

Terrific!

I was also one of the “when is it happening” folks like Brett.

I should mention that I kind of knew that moving the Monotype fonts in the Typekit framework will be difficult. There are many Helveticas and unlike other sites where one font is the font type plus the variation such as font-weight and one adds them one by one to the kit, in Typekit you do it differently – here you add the font first and then select the font-weight etc. The latter is definitely better. It may thus take a while to build the unified framework.

Just guessing. I am not from software but I think I can understand this very well:

“The balance of the work involves preparing the fonts using Typekit’s web font processing engine, and making them easy to find and use in the Typekit library. This turned out to be an even bigger job than we anticipated.”

Happy to read this post.

By: Paul Howson

Paul Howson — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:23:28 +0000

The burning question is how much extra will it cost to use Monotype fonts on Typekit?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:01:26 +0000

You guys are too modest. If you want to see an example of “when is it coming?” look at H&FJ. Slowest. Company. Ever. Web fonts anyone? No, they want us to use SIFR in 2013.

By: Matthew Rechs

Matthew Rechs — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:02:56 +0000

In reply to Brett. Thanks for hanging in there, Brett.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:35:53 +0000

Thank you for the update! I have been one of the “when’s it happening????” folks, so I am pleased to get more info. I look forward to their launch this summer. 🙂