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This weekend I facilitated a session on web fonts technologies at Minnebar entitled Ban Helvetica – Or Why Ignoring Web Safe Fonts Makes Your Website Better

My mind map of all the web font technologies, @font-face service providers, and common licenses.

Here’s a photo of the entire diagram from Robyn Flach (thanks Robin!)

“Garrick Van Buren dissected the diagram above in a discussion about not worrying so much about ‘web-safe’ fonts. Great session!”

My talking about the mind map.

Chank talking about how he handles embedded font licensing.

Thanks to Jamie Thingelstad for the great shots.

I’m pleased to announced Kernest.com is now selling Chank Diesel’s Chumley family.

Chumley is a clean, fun, hand-written sans serif that comes in 3 weights (medium, ’skinny’, and ‘fatty’) and feels right at home in web comics. Starting at $15/website/year.

Yes, I said ’starting’.

Chumley is the first font family offered with Kernest’s new ‘Pay What You Want’ pricing.

Show Chank how perfect Chumley is for your project – add a zero….or 2.

All prices are still per year-per website.

“I got to meet local font designer rockstar Chank Diesel yesterday!” – Mykl Roventine

Wow. Packed room at The Foundation today to talk web fonts and Kernest.

Excellent questions from the audience on licensing (up to the individual foundry/type designer), printability (probably not), and why Kernest doesn’t allow direct downloads (cause it shouldn’t).

Huge thanks for Chank Diesel for stopping by and sharing; his thoughts on what @font-face means for type designers like himself, how this is as much of an opportunity as OpenType was a few years ago, and snapping this photo of me pointing at CSS code.

Now it’s time to pack the overnight bag and head to Atlanta.

“Both Typekit and Kernest plan to offer new web-only fonts as a service, not a product. Traditionally, you buy a font once, you get to use it forever. Now, when you get your web fonts you’ll most likely have to pay an ongoing subscription fee for as long as you want to use them.” – Chank Diesel

Read the whole thing. It’s a good overview of web type from a font designer.