The WebINK service was designed to allow you to maximize your impact with a minimum of effort. There are some key concepts behind the service that you should understand so that you can create a smooth workflow for yourself.
Account
You need an account in order to utilize the WebINK service. You can try the service for free for 30 days; to continue after this period you will need to provide a credit card for billing.
WebINK Library
The WebINK Library is the library of high-quality fonts available from the WebINK service. You can browse through the library and preview fonts to find the best typefaces for your website.
Type Drawer
A Type Drawer holds the fonts you have chosen to use with a specific set of websites. You can have as many Type Drawers as you need for your projects.
Websites
The fonts in a Type Drawer are made available to all the websites assigned to the drawer. You can assign single sites such as www.example.com or, by using wildcards, you can assign multiple subdomains (*.example.com).
Usage Level
You can specify the maximum usage level available to a Type Drawer. Measured in gigabytes, this is the total size of the font data that the websites in a Type Drawer can be served in a month. (If the traffic to your websites is higher than you expected and so your usage exceeds this amount, your websites will not suddenly be cut off; you will receive an email alert.)
Price Tier
Fonts are grouped by their prices, so you can keep costs down for specific websites by setting the appropriate Price Tier for each Type Drawer. WebINK pricing.
Font, font face, font family
In desktop typography, a font or font-family is a collection of faces designed and intended to be used together.
The Garamond font family includes roman and italic styles and bold, demi-bold, and regular weights. A face of this font family is a single style and weight combination, such as Garamond Demi-Italic.
Example: Below is a small sample of the font faces available in the Garamond font family.
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Garamond Regular
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Garamond Italic
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Garamond Bold
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Garamond Demi
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Garamond Demi-Italic
For simplicity's sake we use the term “font” to mean a set of faces from a given family that are collected together. When viewed in the context of the WebINK Library, this will generally coincide with the entire family. When used in the context of fonts in a Type Drawer, it will usually be a subset of a family: perhaps just the roman and italic styles, for example.
