Fun, interactive updates to Source Han Serif showcase
After the initial launch, the Source Han Serif site continues to evolve with new vision in really neat ways.
After the initial launch, the Source Han Serif site continues to evolve with new vision in really neat ways.
Version 2.0 of Source Serif is here! The work on this release has been a long time coming, and represents a major step forward. You can get this newest version of Source Serif from Typekit for web & sync, and its development files are available open source on Github.
Back in August we shipped a preview for a major update to Typekit's font browsing interface, and many of you have helped us test it and offered great feedback over the last few weeks. Today we're excited to release Typekit's new look to everyone, along with a few additional improvements we've made since last month's preview release.
Just minutes ago, at the ATypI conference in Warsaw, the world was introduced to a new kind of font: a variable font. Jointly developed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe, a variable font is, as John Hudson put it, "a single font file that behaves like multiple fonts".
We have some big news today: we've just shipped a brand new experience for browsing fonts on Typekit - the biggest change to our web interface in almost five years. We've rebuilt font browsing from the ground up to make it faster and easier to find the fonts you want to use across a wider...
In early 2012, I shared a formula for "molten leading", or fluid line spacing. Experienced typographers know that long lines of text need more line spacing, but line spacing can be tighter for short lines of text. The problem is that on the web, our texts are flexible.
Fonts in the Typekit library will now be available for desktop use.