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Alternatives to TypeKit

TypeKit is great, I use it all the time. As far as a service that allows you to have web fonts on you’re website, in my opinion, they’re the leader. But there are other alternatives out there that give you access to more fonts then currently exist on TypeKit. Here are a couple:

I want to highlight Fontshop in particular. They have a pretty sweet plugin for Photoshop and Illustrator that allows you to “preview any of [their] 150,000+ fonts, in the context of your own artwork”. Why TypeKit hasn’t come out with this yet, considering that they’re now owned by Adobe, boggles my bind.

Tags: development resources typography web design
June 13, 2012
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I’ve always wanted a tool like this and it seems my buddy and motion-designer extraordinaire Jordan Lloyd, found it, like… half a year ago. Bascially, I have a template folder with specific files and sub-folders that I use for every single project. So whenever I have a new project I duplicate it and rename all the files/folders.

It’s a good system because it keeps me organized and makes searching for files from previous projects much easier. But, it’s a bit of a pain in the ass. Post Haste relieves me of that pain by automating the porcess.

Also, check out Jordan’s other post on a file sharing service called CloudApp.

Tags: resources tools workflow design development
February 03, 2012

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