Typography - Getting The Hang Of Typography

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Font Selection
600, with plans for this number to be doubled before Christmas.


Advantage Over Other Services
Only pay for the fonts you want to use. No bandwidth limit. Unlimited trial
periods for all fonts (with a 20 IP address cap).


Pros
Easy to set up. Affordable options available. Automatically include similar
style fonts in the font stack. Pure CSS with no JavaScript required.


Cons
No self-hosting option available. Fonts not available for desktop use.


Pricing
Some free fonts, but most start at $2.50 per year per site.


Fee Schedule
Annual subscription (which applies only to fonts on live Web sites; as
mentioned, all fonts have unlimited trial periods).


Our Experience with Fontdeck


Fontdeck was incredibly easy to set up. While it does require manual
insertion of the CSS selectors into the stylesheet for your site (which is by
design, to give designers as much control as possible), it provides the code
for this immediately without the added step of setting up a stylesheet (the
link is ready as soon as you select to add the font). Prior to purchasing the
licence, the first 20 visitors to your site can see the font.


I did find that I had to add the subdirectory to the hostname in order to get
it working. But all the options and controls are located on a single page for

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