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As a designer who studied typography and spent a few years working in print a long time ago, I love typecast. But practically speaking, Google Fonts has service
by pxlpshr 14y ago
As a designer who studied typography and spent a few years working in print a long time ago, I love typecast. But practically speaking, Google Fonts has serviced most of my needs. It's free for one, and that's a pretty big deal. And two, I just prefer its lean implementation.
Type design is an interesting industry. It takes years to master which is not appreciated by the market. And I'm not a qualified type designer, but as a creative director (and purchasing gatekeeper) -- I feel the pricing model is really dated and beautiful type is being held hostage because of it.
- gilrain 14y agoAre you thinking of Typekit, maybe? Typecast is an app for typesetting web fonts, basically. It uses fonts from Google Fonts, Typekit, and I think a couple other webfont providers. It's not in competition with webfont providers at all. Although, now that it's been acquired by one, that may change.
- paulmckeever 14y agoEven though we've been acquired by Monotype (the company behind fonts.com), Typecast will continue to offer web fonts from a range of providers. We think that designers should be able to experiment with the best type available on the web and that belief doesn't change now that we're part of a bigger company.
- gilrain 14y agoThat's good to hear, and I appreciate the response.