Adobe buys Typekit
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At its MAX 2011 technology conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it has acquired privately held Typekit Inc., a leader in the delivery of hosted, high-quality fonts for use on websites. Available as a subscription-based cloud service, Typekit's vast font library gives designers and developers creative license to deliver beautiful type that enhances the Web experience. Today, more than 250,000 customers use Typekit, including some of the largest sites on the Web, such as The New York Times, Conde Nast, IGN and many others.
- bored2death0
Awesome? Not sure on this one.
- canoe0
What's their stock doing?
- dbloc0
hmm. I hope they don't kill it.
- omg0
adobe wants to control the web
- 9900000
damn. if Adobe keeps it going and keeps it affordable, it may turn out to be amazing.
- raf0
I can picture competing foundries not adding any new fonts to it, especially that the earnings foundries have with Typekit aren't stellar.
- popfodders0
Adobe uses ruins good things like that.
- fragmented sentence.dbloc
- usually heheepopfodders
- the auto-correct corrupted it eh?vaxorcist
- DeSiard0
I'm still bitter about freehand.
- bored2death0
So TypeKit will probably be a popup menu in Dreamweaver?
- withremote0
I got that email this afternoon from TypeKit and thought "Uh ho..."
- 3030
I presume that 4 founders of Typekit are rolling in money now.
- not necessarily, probably got a good chunk, but it's probably not as much as you thinkpopfodders
- they wouldn't have sold if they weren't happy with the dosh.Amicus
- DeSiard0
I'm curious to see if there are any plans for Creative Suite integration
- DeSiard0
I'm curious to see if there are any plans for Creative Suite integration
- I expect eventually there would be, particularly with DW, as b2d said.Continuity
- plash0
yes this is Awesome
- 9900000
it just occurred to me that Adobe can now potentially include better font support in Adobe Edge with Typekit. Edge is on its way to competing with Flash...
- dMullins0
I am looking forward to a Typekit palette in CS6. Please make it happen, Adobe. ASAP.