Press Release
Adobe and Typekit have announced a collaboration to offer Adobe Web Fonts, which are engineered to work on multiple screens and can easily be deployed on any website. Avoiding the need to convert type to bitmapped image formats, Adobe Web Fonts are delivered straight to browsers via Typekit’s global network. This brings Adobe quality type to your site that is searchable and easy to edit. With Adobe Web Fonts, developers and designers can expand beyond the small set of web-safe fonts they have been using for years.
As a leading web font service, Typekit not only provides access to a carefully chosen set of over 120 fonts (16 families) from the Adobe Type Library, but also drives more fonts to more websites than any other company on the web. Using the @font-face rule in CSS, developers can now choose from a broad array of fonts, reference them directly in HTML, and know that the text can be accessed by search engines. Designers can make changes to fonts directly through the Typekit online service, without the added hassle of having to change code – resulting in faster edits and rapid deployment to the web.
“The people at Typekit have developed a great solution for improving productivity and adding visual richness to the web,” said Caleb Belohlavek, principal product manager for Type Development at Adobe. “By providing web designers with access to trusted, high-quality fonts from the Adobe Type Library, Typekit and Adobe have made the solution even better.”
“For web developers and designers, Typekit and Adobe Web Fonts are a great way to bring Adobe’s world-class type designs to the web,” said Bryan Mason, Co-Founder and President, TypeKit. “Using fonts from Adobe that designers have trusted for years, and using TypeKit’s tiered level of services, you can easily build typographically rich web pages within an easily affordable budget.”
A sampling of the faces is below. Click here for a complete PDF list of the Web fonts. To learn more about Adobe Web Fonts, visit https://www.adobe.com/type/webfont/info.html.
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on August 17, 2010
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