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 will be migrated to fonts.com in 2012 |
 Fonts.com |
 Typekit |
 WebINK |
 Webtype |
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| Font families | over 500 | over 895 | 96 | over 1000 | over 700 | over 900 | over 70 |
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| Google WebFont Loader | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
| Hosting Plans (enterprise solutions are mostly self hosted options or hosting custom fonts) | no |
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| Billing | none | annually | annually | monthly or annually | annually | annually | annually |
| Desktop use (download font for workflow support) |
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no | no | depends on used font and license | no | ||
| Print / PDF use |
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no | no | no | depends on used font and license | no | no |
| Limitations | none | Pageviews / monthly | Pageviews / monthly |
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Unique Visitors / monthly | Pageviews / monthly |
| Test or trial account | free | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
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mostly Latin |
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| 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 |
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no infos |
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no infos | no infos |
| Font Tools (special tools of or for the service) | Font Previewer | Web Fonts in Action |
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Font Swapper |
Web font hosting services: Part 2
| Options |
 Just Another Foundry |
 Typonine |
 Typotheque |
 Web fonts Kernest |
 FontServe |
 TypeFront |
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| Font families | 7 | 23 | 51 | over 240 | none | none |
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| Google WebFont Loader | no | no | no | no | no | no |
| Hosting Plans (enterprise solutions are mostly self hosted options or hosting custom fonts) |
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| Billing | annually | one-time | one-time | monthly or annually | annually | 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 | Bandwith / monthly (limit 2 GB) | Bandwith / monthly (limit 500 MB) | Bandwith / monthly (limit 500 MB) | none | none |
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| Test or trial account | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes |
| Languages | mostly Latin | mostly Latin |
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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 |  |
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no infos |
| Font Tools (special tools of the service) | none | Font Tester | Font Combinator | none | none | none |