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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by bduerst »

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?

I was wondering the same thing - Is there an advantage to using Adobe's web fonts over Google's fonts?

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by icoloma »

DASD wrote: post #3
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?

Also, there is an extra DNS round trip by using an external web service. And I hate seeing JavaScript crawl into my tag - certainly not for a web font.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by clarkdave »

zalew wrote: post #10

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.

This is similar to how TypeKit serve their fonts. They wrote a blog post explaining their reasoning: http://blog.typekit.com/2011/08/11/better-web-font-loading-w...

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by relix »

zalew wrote: post #10

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.

TypeKit has a lot of countermeasures to ensure that the fonts are used according to the license, and not by anyone who isn't allowed to or through proxy's or something. I don't know the details but had a run-in with this in the past, resolved soon by customer support. I'm guessing Adobe didn't care for creating a second serving system to serve up these fonts, or the licenses are still restrictive that it requires some added logic.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by lelandbatey »

I have a question on how web-fonts actually work.

I thought fonts basically just vector graphics. Since these are just java-script files, how are they being distributed? How do these work?

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by zalew »

lelandbatey wrote: post #16

I have a question on how web-fonts actually work. I thought fonts basically just vector graphics. Since these are just java-script files, how are they being distributed? How do these work?

http://webfonts.info/browser-support-overview

google: embed css link, the negotiation which one to download is made server-side

adobe: embed js link, the negotiation which one to download is made client-side

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