Typekit acquired by Adobe

On October 3, 2011, the Typekit service , whose business is based on the paid provision of access to commercial fonts for website design using the @ font-face directive in CSS, was acquired by Adobe. You could read about it on the same day on Typekit’s blog and in the Adobe press release . According to Adobe, the Typekit service (currently numbering about a quarter of a million users, including the New York Times and Wordpress) will eventually become part of the Adobe Creative Cloud project.

It should be noted that Adobe could already be ranked among Internet font traders; just in their collection of Adobe Web Fontsthe number of fonts has exceeded a couple of hundred, while Typekit trades in thousands. It is useful to compare this with the number of fonts in the Adobe Type Library collection, which are sold for offline use - their number exceeds 2300 .

Judging by the  comments of readers of the Typekit blog , some users are alarmed by their oversold status , grimly expecting price increases or some other kind of trouble. But this is as usual.

Personally, I never really liked Typekit because, frankly, I couldn’t get their font preview to work properly with Russian letters (at least in Firefox) - neither in the mode of viewing the font library with the support of Russian writing, nor in the operation of Type Tester . Latin letters (for example, for English) work fine, but Cyrillic does not. While the site of free fonts Google Web Fonts with Cyrillic has no problems.

As for Adobe, an attempt to open a Russian store in a browser leads to a warning about a secure connection certificate expired 20 days ago.