We like typography. As developers, we have worked hard over the years to support the various ways available to our design partners to bring their typographic vision to our clients' websites.

In the early days, we mostly just chopped out images or used some scripting to dynamically replace your text with graphics showing the text in the appropriate typeface. We've also done several sites that made use of the sfir & cufón techniques for text-replacement. More recently, we have made use of our Typekit account to bring their large & ever-growing library of fonts to websites, as well as the even-newer Google Web Font library to apply stylish typography to our sites.

From our point of view, this has been pretty straightforward - after all, we mostly only look at sites in the browser. But for designers, a lot (if not all) of their works happens before the site is marked up in HTML, in Photoshop or Illustrator. Today, there's a solution to help them out. Extensis, a photoshop plug-in maker has just released a Photoshop plugin to allow designers to drop Google Web Fonts directly into their designs. No more using an 'approximate match' for fonts - our design partners and ourselves can work directly with the final fonts that will be used on the end-product website.

I'm excited to see how this will improve our collective workflow and vision for how our clients' sites will look in the future.