Nice Web Type

At long last — a more concise, more useful Web Font Specimen.

And not only that, but three more interesting things of note: First, a realigned webfontspecimen.com that will help it grow a bit (new nav at the top, and less info on the front page); Second, a list of things folks are doing with WFS (on the About page — some awesome stuff there); And finally, most exciting:

Web Font Specimen is now built into Typekit! Launch a WFS of any Typekit typeface directly from font pages, without any of the usual setup work.

Thanks, once again, to Jason Santa Maria for guidance on this revision, and to my colleagues at Typekit – particularly Greg Veen – for making it part of the service. In refining WFS it was necessary to remove certain features, but I hope what we have now is a more simple, solid foundation upon which to build.

WFS is still licensed via Creative Commons, so use it however you like. Over time, I’ll likely be working on it both independently and as part of Typekit. If you have ideas about how it can be better or suit different purposes, please experiment and share!