Typekit is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.
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Characteristics
Typekit is an online service which provides subscribers with access, under a single licensing agreement, to its font library.
For web site use the service works with the @font-face CSS property and JavaScript. Visitors to a web site who have disabled javascript in their browser will therefore not see the fonts.
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History
Typekit was launched in September 2009 by Small Batch, Inc., a company run by creators of the Google Analytics service. In October 2011, the service was acquired by Adobe.
Alternatives
Google introduced a competing, free service named Google Web Fonts in May 2010.
Clearleft and OmniTI launched Fontdeck in June 2010.
Font Bureau and Ascender Corporation launched the Webtype service in October 2010.
See also
- Adobe Creative Cloud § Criticism
- Adobe Originals
References
External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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