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Adobe buys TypeKit for web typography

updated 04:05 pm EDT, Mon October 3, 2011

Offers webbased font service for websites


Adobe has acquired TypeKit, a privately held provider of hosted fonts for use on websites. Available as a subscription-based cloud service, TypeKit offers a large font library to web designers and developers. TypeKit fonts will be offered as a standalone service and over time will become part of Adobe's Creative Cloud initiative.

Founded in 2008, TypeKit offers its subscription-based service with prices ranging from $25 to $100 per year depending on the number of page views and fonts per site. Typekit claims to provide nearly three billion fonts per month on over to over one million different websites.

The value of the acquisition wasn't disclosed but may be small enough not to be material to Adobe's finances.

Adobe's takeover should address a category that's relatively untapped for the primarily art-oriented company as well as give it an advantage in web design.


By Electronista Staff

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  1. rvhernandez

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    10/03, 05:19pm | report spam | reply

    Not excited

    I am not excited by Adobe's lack of focus on making their core creative apps better. Can I tell you how many times InDesign has crashed on me today on quit? And it's not just me or a rogue font issue...


  1. Super Glitcher

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    10/03, 06:25pm | report spam | reply

    Mildly excited

    ..and primarily because it could signal the return of ATM Deluxe which, if meshed into CS/Bridge, could be amazing. IMHO ATM Deluxe (circa OS 9.1) was a stronger type manager than Suitcase has ever been, and has the potential to integrate at a core level in CS (imagine being able to manage char + par styles independently of documents.. create, extract, insert, replace, etc.). If you can't get excited about that, maybe you can get excited about not having to cough up an upgrade fee to Extensis for auto-activation plugs every time Adobe CS updates -- that should absolutely be an integrated, packaged CS function.


  1. rvhernandez

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    10/03, 08:33pm | report spam | reply

    ATM Deluxe was..

    ATM Deluxe was great. But at that time so was Adobe. I am not sure how buying Typekit will spawn ATM again?


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