Priceless! "Our mission: move the web forward and give web designers and developers the best tools and services in the world." And then: "Download a PDF version of this document (PDF, 47 KB)"
You do know that PDF is an open format, right?
Adobe Edge Web Fonts
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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#32Sad that they don't support international characters (or at least not the full character set of the language we use here).
Fonts provided by Google are better in character range coverage. Anyway, thanks Adobe.
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#33Neat, but I don't understand why Adobe would do this. I already use Adobe Typekit, and $50/year gives me access to a huge library of fonts at an unlimited number of websites. For my purposes, I'm tempted to stop paying even that totally reasonable, meager amount and just use this free offering instead.
After following most of the links on the page, I can't find any mention of limits on pageviews or traffic. On the surface of it, that makes their free offering a little bit better than their paid offering.
Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#34Priceless! "Our mission: move the web forward and give web designers and developers the best tools and services in the world." And then: "Download a PDF version of this document (PDF, 47 KB)"
You do know that PDF is an open format, right?
Yeah, but it is in Adobe's interest to have you download a pdf that happens to use a pointless feature that only exists in the version of acrobat the came out three weeks ago and no other pdf viewer supports.
Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#35Is there a web page to browse all these fonts? That dropdown is tedious to use.
The dropdown was broken for me on Windows 7/Chrome.
Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#36Adobe 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://…
They want to appeal to bosses who will tell the developers to use it..
Yes. Managers, not developers, are Adobe's customers.
Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#37Still no VAG Rundschrift. I have seen people request it on Typekit for years. Adobe is the licensor for this font, I have no idea why they haven't listened and either start offering it as a web font or explain why they won't/can't.
Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#38I 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.
I abandoned Google fonts because of the annoying latency / flash on refresh. The Adobe fonts are smooth on my dev machine. That might be worth the difference under the hood.
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#39I 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?
On my dev machine, Google's has an annoying flash / latency issue. Adobe's is smooth.
Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts
#40Still no VAG Rundschrift. I have seen people request it on Typekit for years. Adobe is the licensor for this font, I have no idea why they haven't listened and either start offering it as a web font or explain why they won't/can't.
If you don't mind hosting it yourself it looks like you can buy VAG Rundschrift as a downloadable web font from MyFonts.com.