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Comment by bretthopper | Hacker News Reader

Pretty useful. Just keep in that mind that loading up 4+ fonts via @font-face could easily 500kb more load to the initial request.

Also, this service would be a lot better if it managed to package + download the font kits for you.

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Thanks for the flowers (I'm one of the creators of this little project). Regarding the packaging/download: We'd love to do that but it takes a lot of work technically (and currently this is more of a hobby project) and a lot of work regarding the licensing. Although currently all fonts we have should be free for web use, most of them would probably require additional licensing if we would repackage them. We'd love to do cooperations with services like fontsquirrel (most of our fonts are taken from their site and their excellent webfont packager), but that's future talk.

As a closing remark: It was (and still is) a lot of fun to see so many people care for something we built mostly in 48 hours during the railsrumble 2010. We had some additional iterations after that, but the core still is rumble material.

Congrats on the success of the site. I just wanted to say that this is one of my favorite projects from last year's Rumble (also the first RR I didn't compete in).

I shouted out a long "hurray" when I realized what you had done. Is there something I miss, or why all the comments are so cautious? What's wrong with webfonts and the packages you create?

Maybe something sneaky could be done if the fonts are properly cached, ie. load them AFTER the very first page load on a timer after the page is complete - then the following page loads would have the fonts and/or re-render the page after the load is complete.

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