# Typekit brings typography to the Web

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/typekit-brings-typography-to-the-web/174851>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 3, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/typekit-brings-typography-to-the-web/174851 "2009-09-03T02:53:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/typekit-brings-typography-to-the-web/174851/1 "2009-09-03T02:53:24Z")

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A new company, Typekit, is a font service provider. Your Web pages  
need not be drab anymore – and its compatible with major browsers.

[http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7501](http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7501)

Martin

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**Author:** ![msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@msojka](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/msojka)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/typekit-brings-typography-to-the-web/174851/2 "2009-09-03T07:15:51Z")

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Martin S. wrote:

> A new company, Typekit, is a font service provider. Your Web pages  
> need not be drab anymore – and its compatible with major browsers.
> 
> [Panen138 # Daftar Judi Slot Online Link Alternatif Login Panen138 Resmi 2023](http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7501)
> 
> Martin

Great, so we have to pay $25/year for crippled fonts. The CSS wizardry  
is impressive, but why not just use Cufón and any of the high-quality  
fonts that are specifically free for Web use (I’ll dig up a link if you  
like)?

Anyway, I suspect that licensing issues are more of a red herring that  
type foundries would like us to believe. At least in the US, font  
designs are not protected by copyright, although font software is. This  
effectively makes fonts uncopyrightable for many uses. Besides,  
something like Cufón should be just as legit as making a static GIF  
image of text for Web use.

So Typekit just seems like a really nice solution in search of a  
problem.

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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