Got my invitation to the Typekit beta today!
First thoughts – great interface! The UI design makes it super easy to pick which font you want and assign it to the elements of your site. I just picked a couple just to test things out but I’m not a designer so it might take me a while to figure out what I want.
I can’t wait until there are more fonts – it would be great to see some there from some of the big foundries. Also, it would speed up things if they could use a bit of AJAX in the interface. I find that looking for fonts is a process where I need to scan a lot of them fairly quickly and speeding up the UI would be great for that. One last thing I think is missing, but isn’t a huge deal, is a search field. I think that is something which would be more important when they have more fonts, but it will be great if I have a specific font in mind to just quickly search for it by name.
I am very impressed though and I can’t wait to sign up my designer friends so they can start working with fonts other than the usual, and so they can stop using image replacement.
