Adobe TypeKit and Web Fonts

Cool news today about the the launch of Adobe Web Fonts on Typekit. The Typekit service makes it easy to sign up and start adding rich typographical content to your sites right away. And with over 120 Adobe Web Fonts (from 16 families) now available from Typekit, you have even more to choose from. A snap to deploy, just sign up, create a kit from your library of fonts, and paste the code that Typekit provides you right into your web page.

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For Creative Professionals, Web Designers and Developers who want to add visual richness to their web content, Adobe Systems and Typekit offer Adobe Web Fonts - type which looks great on screens and is easy to add to your website. Unlike traditional web workflows which require conversion of type to bitmapped image formats, Adobe Web Fonts are delivered straight to browsers via Typekit’s global network bringing Adobe quality you’ve come to expect to your site and type which is searchable and easy to edit.

Web Developers:
Adobe Web Fonts and the Typekit service enable developers to expand well beyond the same small set of web-safe fonts they have been using for years with access to broad font libraries from many foundries and now fonts from Adobe. Using the @font-face rule in CSS, developers can now produce sites where headlines and body text can be chosen from a broad array of fonts, and referenced directly in their code. And because the type they use is no longer delivered as bit-mapped images, it can be catalogued by search engines. Finally, developers can realize improvements in productivity because changes to copy or changes from one font to another can be made quickly, resulting in faster edits and rapid deployment.

Web Designers:
Web Designers and Creative Professionals have long been looking for greater flexibility and typographic variety when using fonts on the web. For years, they have been confined to the same set of web-safe fonts. With the Typekit service, designers now have access to a set of font libraries which enable them to choose the right typeface for the job. Design Professionals have been using Adobe fonts for years, because they can depend upon Adobe’s reputation for world-class typographic design and reliability. And with over 120 fonts (from 16 families) selected from the Adobe Type Library, Adobe Web Fonts are now available for the web and are engineered to look great on multiple screen types.

New Users:
If you are new to building websites, and would like to learn more about getting good type onto the web, then the Typekit service and Adobe Web Fonts are a great way to get started. Using many of the same fonts from Adobe that designers have trusted for years, you can now easily build typographically-rich pages which pop from the screen. And with Typekit’s tiered level of service, you are bound to find the set of fonts that is right for your budget but can grow with you as well.

Adobe Web Fonts: Top features:
- Over 120 fonts (16 families) from the Adobe Type Library
- Technical reliability you have come to expect from Adobe
- Created by award-winning designers consistently beautiful and high-quality type
- Extended character sets many supporting Eastern European languages
- Classic designs which, until now, haven’t been available for the web
- Engineered to look great on multiple screens

About Typekit
- Industry leader in web font serving - More Fonts to More Website Than Anyone Else
- Global network of servers, offering bulletproof service and incredible speed
- Advanced style control for designers: intuitive and easy tools to control fonts and how they’re applied to your site
- Trusted by sites like New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Twitter and ESPN

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