Cons
Some fonts are expensive compared to other web font services. Back-end
was among the least user-friendly of the services featured here.
Pricing
Free 30-day trial on all fonts. Fonts start at $10 per year per site.
Fee Schedule
Annual subscription
Our Experience with Fonts Live
Setting up Fonts Live is a bit more labor intensive than setting up some
others featured here. Setting up the service wasn՚t without its bugs, either.
First of all, read the documentation before you start, or you՚re likely to get
confused. With the first font I tried (Corsiva Italic), the site was unable to set
up the resource and kept returning errors. It also created blank files for
each of these failures, meaning I had to go in and manually delete them.
Not sure if this was just an exception for that particular font or if it՚s a more
widespread problem. There was no mention of it in the site՚s
documentation.
I had better luck with the second font I tried (Romany). This time it created
the resource without any issues. From there, you have to insert the
stylesheet (“resource” in Fonts Live terms) link in your header and then
insert the font family, style, and weight for whichever elements you want
styled. The plus side here is that you don՚t run into issues with your original
stylesheet interfering. Once it was up and running, however, it was
noticeably faster serving the fonts than TypeKit, though this is likely due to
smaller file sizes in the fonts used.