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If you haven’t heard of Typekit it’s definitely worth taking a moment and poking around the website. In a nutshell, they want to expand the capabilities of web typography by increasing the number of fonts web designers can choose from. I’m pretty sure they do this with the @font-face, a bit of javascript and a subscription. Either way it has some pretty awesome capabilities.

The awesome thing about Typekit and @font-face is that they work in Safari; the shitting thing about Typekit and @font-face is that they don’t work anywhere else (at least not IE, FF, Chrome or Opera).

edit: @font-face will work in IE, FF, Chome & Opera, but additional font file types are needed and it must be in a version running CSS3. OTF & TTF work in Safari, but EOT is needed for IE, and SVG is needed for Opera.

Here’s an additional resource on the subject: Mozilla Hacks @font-face

I decided to make a little web utility so that I could more easily preview the Typekit fonts without logging in and using their previewer. Since I currently have a free membership with Typekit I’m only able to use two of their fonts at a time, so I decided to add a few free typefaces that I found. If I do end up getting a membership I think it will come in handy.

Font Previewing

Just a teaser for the final Keyboard animation. After a little reworking and a few new camera angles I think the animation works much better and tells a more complete story.

View version one, the DIRECTOR’S CUT.

Here is the music I made for my “After Death” title sequence.

I created it in Garageband by changing the tempo of some of their canned audio and then adding layers and effects. Hopefully it’s a mix between creepy and not too creepy. We’ll see once it comes together with the animation.