Elliot Jay Stocks on The Font-as-Service
“… we are now entering the age of the font-as-service: where the font becomes synonymous with web hosting, mobile data plans, and movie rentals. No longer fixed, fonts will be borrowed, subscribed to, removed, expanded upon, and provided on-the-fly.”
Elliot writes a great piece at i love typography on fonts as a service, with TypeKit and FontDeck paving the way forward the future of typography on the web looks great — albeit there are a still a host of unanswered questions regarding pricing, security and scalability.