Typekit Gets an API
Font set up Typekit introduced an API Thursday that lets web programmers generates kits from the Typekit records behind the scenes.
The company has earlier offered the choice of picking fonts and generating kits via the web-based tool on its site. But by releasing an API, it’s giving people the option of building Typekit into their own apps or basically extending the technique they utilize the service.
Writing on the Typekit blog, Paul Hammond says “The Typekit API gives you the skill to programmatically create, alter and publish kits. It also allows them to bring metadata about all the fonts in the Typekit library.”
Here are the documentation pages. As you can see, the Typekit API precedes data in a few different flavors (JSON, XML and YAML)
If you have not yet explored Typekit’s service for including visualize fonts in your site designs, you must. Especially practical is the Web Font Loader, an open source document of scripts that Typekit developed to help eradicate the “flash of unstyled text” that happens when a page loads. The Web Font Loader offers a number of JavaScript events which let developers more control over when and how their fonts are loaded onto the page.


