Adobe has given its backing to Typekit, a service that enables website designers to use a much wider range of fonts in web pages.
Until recently websites could only safely use the handful of fonts that are installed be default on Macs and PCs. But with that has changed with the introduction of the CSS font-face rule, and several services have sprung up to provide designers with the necessary online font repository.
Typekit, launched a year ago, is one and has scored a major coup with the Adobe deal that gives it access to a collection of classic fonts, including Garamond, Minion, Myriad, Trajan and News Gothic.
“We’ve been using these fonts internally here at Typekit for a few weeks and the quality is simply amazing,” says Bryan Mason, co-founder of Typekit. “These are the original cuts of the celebrated typefaces you’ve been waiting for, not reproductions or knockoffs of their designs. That means you can use them with the assurance that your creative work is being presented with all the accuracy and technical detail the print world has known for decades.”
Typekit has posted examples from the Adobe collection, which forms just part of the thousands of fonts available. Designers can sign up for a free trial, which includes Adobe Garamond.
One of Adobe’s biggest rivals in the font market, Monotype, introduced its own web font resource earlier this year.
