Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by ujeezy » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:00 PM UTC

Adobe Edge Web Fonts
html.adobe.com

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by rlt3 » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:32 PM UTC

I see a few overlapping fonts (or, at least, overlapping names) from Google Web Fonts. But most seem new.

Is there going to be a new competition over who has the 'cutting-edge' fonts?

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by DASD » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:37 PM UTC

rlt3 wrote: post #2

I see a few overlapping fonts (or, at least, overlapping names) from Google Web Fonts. But most seem new. Is there going to be a new competition over who has the 'cutting-edge' fonts?

Their linked blog mentions a partnership with Google regarding some of the fonts offered.

http://blog.typekit.com/2012/09/24/introducing-adobe-edge-we...

With that said and paranoia of external asset serving/hosting, does anyone know if these fonts can be self-hosted?

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by jonny_eh » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:46 PM UTC

I've never heard of this "Adobe Edge". What's the deal here? I can't tell if it's a free thing or what.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by alexchamberlain » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

Am I right in thinking Adobe bought TypeKit?

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by ceejayoz » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:50 PM UTC

alexchamberlain wrote: post #5

Am I right in thinking Adobe bought TypeKit?

You're right, but you're about a year late.

http://blog.typekit.com/2011/10/03/adobe-acquires-typekit/

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by pdeuchler » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:53 PM UTC

jonny_eh wrote: post #4

I've never heard of this "Adobe Edge". What's the deal here? I can't tell if it's a free thing or what.

Adobe's closed source fork of http://brackets.io

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by nostromo » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:53 PM UTC

Adobe really needs to drop the corporate marketer talk.

"Adobe Edge Tools & Services: New tools and services for a beautiful, modern web."

"Edge Web Fonts is conveniently built into Edge Code today and will be available in Edge Reflow and other Edge Tools & Services soon."

I'm reading all this and I still have no idea what Edge is or why I should care.

A much more informative link for the HN audience is this: http://www.edgefonts.com/

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by zalew » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 6:56 PM UTC

I wonder why they pushed negotiation to the client side instead of doing like google. you need to send this http://use.edgefonts.net/league-gothic.js to your user instead of this http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Code+Pro in order to serve your font, and it won't work with js disabled.