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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://…
Helping to improve fonts that are not just freely available, but freely available on services other than your own? It's almost like I'm starting to feel goodwill towards Adobe. It's rather strange.
Damn........ they got a font called Lobster Two This changes everything
~jk
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
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
Also, because it's implied otherwise, it should be stated that Brackets is an Adobe-created/-owned project. The two are still quite tied together, as Brackets improvements are pushed into Edge Code releases.
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 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...
"The fonts are served by Typekit, so you can be sure of high performance and stability."
"In addition, Adobe will be applying its considerable font expertise to improving and optimizing a number of the open source fonts that are available in both Google Web Fonts and Edge Web Fonts. The teams from Typekit, Adobe Type, and Google Web Fonts are working to identify which fonts will benefit the most from our attention, and how we can best approach improving their rendering and performance." Helping to improv…