Font Fridays: Typekit and The Typographic Desk Reference
Today’s special Thanksgiving Font Friday includes a free Typekit Portfolio account and a signed copy of The Typographic Desk Reference from Oak Knoll Press.
A feast of type & typography
Typekit brings real fonts to your website in seconds. Simply choose the fonts you want from Typekit’s large (and growing!) library, select which classes or IDs you want the fonts to appear, and you’re done! The Portfolio-level account provides access to the full library of fonts on up to 5 websites for one year.
Now that web fonts are a reality, you’ll need all the typographic advice you can get your hands on. The Typographic Desk Reference includes thousands of facts on typography, including typographic terms, glyphs, guides to anatomy and form, and classifications and specimens. Beautifully written and designed by Theodore Rosendorf, and signed by the author.
How it works
It’s the Friday before Thanksgiving, and let’s be honest—most of you are already daydreaming about turkey and cranberry sauce. So, for this week’s contest, we’d like you to take a moment and do a good deed for Typedia. It could be something as simple as adding a release year, or uploading a specimen, or contributing some background information. Tell us your good deed in the comments to be entered in the contest. You can only enter once. You have until 9am EST Monday, November 23rd to enter. After 9am, two winners will be randomly selected, and we’ll announce the winners here.
Good luck! Font Fridays will be taking off for the Thanksgiving holiday next week, but we’ll be back in full force in December! Happy eating!
Update: And we have two winners! Sannsaan wins a free year of Typekit and Brandy Bingham wins the signed copy of the TDR. Congrats to both, and happy Thanksgiving to all!
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1.
Jake Nov 20, 2009
Just updated the country of origin for FF Danubia :)
2.
Indra Kupferschmid Nov 20, 2009
Poynter was worth a good deed
3.
Dominik Porada Nov 20, 2009
“Algerian is missing a Foundry(ies).” — not anymore. :-)
4.
jpamental Nov 20, 2009
Hi – Just added the designer, a source and updated the classification for Century Gothic. Well worth the effort.
5.
Jake Nov 20, 2009
Didn’t feel like adding a country was enough. Added a bunch of info for Lucida Fax too.
6.
Matt Beattie Nov 20, 2009
Abadi now has a country :)
7.
rhiafaery Nov 20, 2009
I added a Distributor for Letter Gothic. :)
8.
Brandy Bingham Nov 20, 2009
Added a foundry & distributor to Gloucester
9.
gregone Nov 20, 2009
I have updated Diavlo’s Background
10.
Michael Powers Nov 20, 2009
Added specimens for Lucida Bright and Lucida Fax.
11.
Elias Nov 20, 2009
Added designers, foundry, classification and release year for Lucida Bright
12.
kokaubeam Nov 20, 2009
Algerian was missing a release year.
13.
mohu Nov 20, 2009
Added a background and background and background source to Sylfaen.
14.
bobholt Nov 20, 2009
I added Designer, a foundry, background, and specimen to Century
15.
Kevin M Jackson Nov 20, 2009
Added FF Unit Rounded & family specimens… Does that count as a “good deed”?
16.
Jason Santa Maria Nov 20, 2009
@chuise : It most certainly does :)
17.
pdmcintyre Nov 20, 2009
Added distributors for Algerian.
18.
bannerjiinica Nov 20, 2009
Added Foundry(ies) for Walbaum.
19.
kurtcruse Nov 20, 2009
Does staying up till 4am on a work night to put the beginnings of a wedding website together for a best bud count? A site that you’d no doubt use Typekit for if you had a few more licenses (that you won in some stellar contest.)
20.
spudking Nov 20, 2009
I just registered! What’s better than that!
21.
Jason Santa Maria Nov 20, 2009
@spudking:
A good deed :) Registering alone doesn’t count.
22.
rhiafaery Nov 20, 2009
Ohhh…oops, I also added a background for Letter Gothic. Can we win some free coffee, too? :D
23.
jasonwhittemore Nov 20, 2009
Added a specimen for Balmoral. Hooray for good deeds!!!
24.
Kevin M Jackson Nov 20, 2009
Figured I would continue to put things off this morning… Added specimens/background for Lucida Bright; added Silkscreen w/specimens (how come the web design people haven’t jumped on that one yet?!).
25.
Shane Guymon Nov 20, 2009
ITC Trade Gothic was titled “TC Trade Gothic” and then I added
1. Designer
2. Foundry
3. Background
4. Release Year
5. Distributor(s)
6. Tags
7. Related Links
26.
jmvanderpol Nov 20, 2009
Entered bio, website & image for the foundry ReType.
27.
Shane Guymon Nov 20, 2009
However after doing a search my “Good Deed” should of been to just delete it, because it appears that “Trade Gothic” is already in the archive.
Do I still get credit for a “good deed”?
28.
sebber Nov 20, 2009
Added specimen for Arnhem, Fago und Unit.
29.
Laura Fisher Nov 20, 2009
Added release date and background for Kozuka Mincho.
It’s a primarily Japanese language font; it doesn’t appear that there are a lot of allowances in the database structure for that information. I added the tag ‘Japanese’ – is that adequate?
30.
Philip Arthur Moore Nov 20, 2009
I added a specimen for Stag Stencil Light. Happy Thanksgiving to Jason and everyone else!
31.
Mandy Brown Nov 20, 2009
@Shane Guymon — yes, that counts. I’ll look into the duplicate issue.
@Laura Fisher: that counts too!
32.
GregD Nov 20, 2009
Added foundaries, background, links, and a second design for Stag Stencil. Also added a release year for Pill Gothic and Country + Formats for Lucida, Lucida Sans, Lucida Fax, Lucida Bright, and Lucida!
33.
elgringopelon Nov 20, 2009
Added country of origin to American Typewriter.
34.
giddy hill Nov 20, 2009
Added original format to Cooper Black.
35.
Eric MacLeod Nov 20, 2009
I added a short, but sweet background to FF Unit.
36.
Tony Nov 20, 2009
I added the distributor for Fedra serif – MyFonts.
37.
Brian Burns Nov 21, 2009
Added a release date and country of origin for Letter Gothic.
38.
LeFaune Nov 21, 2009
Added : – Country of origin for Cambria. – Country of origin for Constantia
39.
Xavier Fajardo Nov 21, 2009
Added the typeface listing for “Urbana” font from colombian typographer César Puertas, you can find it here:
http://typedia.com/explore/typeface/urbana/
40.
santiago Nov 21, 2009
I just added Leitura Type System info
41.
Manuel J. Rivera Nov 21, 2009
Added Designer, Foundry, Release year, Classification and Original format to <a href=“http://typedia.com/explore/typeface/bookman-oldstyle/”>Bookman Oldstyle</a>.
42.
Manuel J. Rivera Nov 21, 2009
Added Designer, Foundry, Release year, Classification and Original format to Bookman Oldstyle (Bookman Oldstyle)
43.
Mike Birch Nov 21, 2009
Added Designers to Albert Pro
44.
AngB Nov 21, 2009
Added Fairy tale and Divine……
45.
PiMC2CM Nov 22, 2009
Added a Specimen for Aster
46.
PiMC2CM Nov 22, 2009
also added specimens for Goudy Text with and without Lombardic capitals
47.
Grot Esqué Nov 22, 2009
Added some info for Badhouse.
48.
xtyelf Nov 22, 2009
I add ITC Galliard & Janson
49.
paulrandall Nov 22, 2009
I added, and updated Moderno FB
It’s a really beautiful font, and I have been waiting for the right project to use it.
50.
riccard0 Nov 22, 2009
Added some info to Andron
51.
kelsey Nov 22, 2009
I just added Clairveaux
52.
Michael Zed Nov 22, 2009
Added Trajanus.
53.
dave aquino Nov 22, 2009
Added Tang
54.
marcuswu Nov 23, 2009
Added Disturbance