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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#41

Post by yvoschaap2 » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 8:40 PM UTC

tarr11 wrote: post #25

Is there a web page to browse all these fonts? That dropdown is tedious to use.

I created one for that: http://www.yvoschaap.com/edgefonts/

Prepare for some resource hogging :)

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#42

Post by H_L » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 8:43 PM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #33

Neat, 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 su…

I feel that this is effectively:

Adobe® Edge Web Fonts: Paid for graciously by the users of Typekit.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#43

Post by dgreensp » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 8:46 PM UTC

Careful, you can't legally serve these fonts with your app, you can only link to them. Am I the only one who finds this a big deal? It means you can't control the uptime of your fonts, and it seems like it would complicate development when you're offline, too.

From a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to turn fonts into a "service" by hyping the hosting aspect. It would be like if jQuery said you can't serve jquery.js from your web server, you can only link to it, and then they start offering paid versions of jQuery.

I realize fonts are a commercial product, but my understanding is that Google Web Fonts really are free to use in your apps, whereas this is a free service. According to the terms, it is illegal to "retransmit" the "Service Materials".

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#44

Post by demetris » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

yvoschaap2 wrote: post #41

tarr11 wrote: post #25

Is there a web page to browse all these fonts? That dropdown is tedious to use.

I created one for that: http://www.yvoschaap.com/edgefonts/ Prepare for some resource hogging :)

Thank you!

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#45

Post by joelhooks » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 9:01 PM UTC

cpeterso wrote: post #36

loceng wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They want to appeal to bosses who will tell the developers to use it..

Yes. Managers, not developers, are Adobe's customers.

It is rather infuriating if you are stuck under that relationship.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#46

Post by threedaymonk » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 9:23 PM UTC

eps wrote: post #31

digitalengineer wrote: post #24

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?

Aye, but it's not exactly moving the web forward, is it?

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#47

Post by thangalin » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 9:29 PM UTC

dgreensp wrote: post #43

Careful, you can't legally serve these fonts with your app, you can only link to them. Am I the only one who finds this a big deal? It means you can't control the uptime of your fonts, and it seems like it would complicate development when you're offline, too. From a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to turn fonts into a "service" by hyping the hosting aspect. It would be like if jQuery said you can't serve…

http://www.google.com/webfonts

The website itself has hardly any frills.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by fuqyoooouu » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 9:40 PM UTC

This is trash. A repackaging of a lot of free OFL type that's already out there, but new and improved with restricted licensing, JS dependency, and relying on Adobe.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#49

Post by drivebyacct2 » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 9:43 PM UTC

Too bad this is what hit the top slot. They also announced the release of the open source code and its monospace variant. I'm using it in elementary OS and it looks fantastic in Sublime Text and terminal.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

#50

Post by adobemeh » Mon, Sep 24, 2012, 10:11 PM UTC

If Adobe were really interested improving the web typography either Myriad Pro would be in the free set (it isn't) or they would change the default font in their creative suites to one of the free fonts (they haven't)