Web font hosting services

This is just a personal driven overview of web font hosting services and should not be understood as an authoritative attempt to classify the services - as it was mentioned to me. I needed an overview and there was none, so I made one. :) I provide a change log so far and I will try to keep informations up to date. If you want to be added or have further informations, just write me a note: webfont-services@sprungmarker.de.

I splitt the overview up in two parts to get a better scrolling behaviour. :) Somehow in part 2 are web font hosting services which are more specialists and web font hosting services which only host your web font, they offer no web fonts. You can jump directly to each part:

Web font hosting services: Part 1

Options
Google Fonts
Fontdeck
FontsLive
Fonts.com
Typekit
WebINK
Webtype
Browser
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Blackberry
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Blackberry
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Blackberry
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Blackberry
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Android
  • Blackberry
Fonts over 100 over 700 499 over 10000
  • 4000
  • more via licenced web fonts from font foundries
 2725 365
Embedding method CSS CSS CSS
  • CSS
  • Javascript and CSS
 Javascript and CSS CSS CSS
Google WebFont Loader yes yes yes yes yes yes no
Hosting Plans (enterprise solutions are mostly self hosted options or hosting custom fonts) no
  • no graded accounts
  • free trial
  • hosting service
  • enterprise solution
  • no graded accounts
  • free trial
  • hosting service
  • enterprise solution
  • yes
  • free trial
  • standard
  • professional
  • enterprise solution
  • yes
  • free
  • personal
  • portfolio
  • performance
  • enterprise solution
  • yes
  • free trial
  • promotional
  • budget
  • standard
  • premium
  • enterprise solution
  • no graded accounts
  • free trial
  • hosting service
  • enterprise solution
Billing none annually annually monthly annually monthly annually
Desktop use (download font for workflow support)
  • yes
  • (free or donation)
 no yes yes depends on used font and license no yes
Print / PDF use
  • yes
  • (free or donation)
 no no no depends on used font and license no no
Limitations none
  • Bandwidth / Visitors
  • monthly
  • Bandwidth / Visitors
  • monthly
  • Bandwidth / Visitors
  • Font Libraries
  • monthly
  • Visitors
  • Font Libraries
  • Domains
  • monthly
  • Bandwidth / Visitors
  • Font Libraries
  • Domains
  • monthly
  • Bandwidth
  • monthly
Test or trial account free yes yes yes yes yes yes
Languages
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • Khmer
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic
  • Armenic
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • WGL
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • CJK
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic
  • Thai
  • Devanagari Basic
 mostly Latin
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • Latin
  • WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish)
Subsets yes no yes yes yes yes yes
OTF Features some yes some no infos yes yes yes
SSL yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
Plugins
  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • Joomla
  • WordPress
  • Drupal
 no infos
  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • Joomla
  • WordPress
  • Posterous
  • Typepad
  • Drupal
  • Joomla
 no infos no infos
Font Tools (special tools of the service) Font Previewer font-size-adjust calculator Web Fonts in Action Web Fonts Preview Browser Samples (Browser and plattform preview) Font Swapper

Web font hosting services: Part 2

Options
Just Another Foundry
Typonine
Typotheque
Web fonts Kernest
FontServe
TypeFront
Browser
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Opera
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Internet Explorer
  • iOs as iPhone
Fonts 58 20 40 2450 none none
Embedding method CSS CSS CSS CSS CSS CSS
Google WebFont Loader no no yes no no no
Hosting Plans (enterprise solutions are mostly self hosted options or hosting custom fonts)
  • no graded accounts
  • hosting service
  • enterprise solution
  • no graded accounts
  • hosting service
  • enterprise solution
  • no graded accounts
  • hosting service
  • enterprise solution
  • no graded accounts
  • hosting service
  • yes
  • free
  • pro
  • developer
 yes
Billing annually one-time one-time one-time monthly monthly
Desktop use (download font for workflow support) yes yes yes yes depends on hosted font depends on hosted font
Print / PDF use yes yes yes yes depends on hosted font depends on hosted font
Limitations
  • Bandwidth
  • monthly
  • Bandwidth
  • monthly
  • Bandwidth
  • monthly
 none
  • Bandwidth / Visitors
  • monthly
  • Visitors
  • daily
Test or trial account yes yes yes no no yes
Languages mostly Latin mostly Latin
  • Latin
  • Cyrillic
  • Greek
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Devanagari
  • Latin
  • Greek
  • CJK
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic
  • Thai
  • Mongolian
 depends on hosted font depends on hosted font
Subsets no yes yes no depends on hosted font depends on hosted font
OTF Features yes yes yes no infos depends on hosted font depends on hosted font
SSL no infos yes yes yes no infos no infos
Plugins no infos no infos no infos Drupal WordPress no infos
Font Tools (special tools of the service) none Font Tester Font Combinator kernest compare none none

Glossary

DOHP:
depending on hosting plan