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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by dholowiski »

Silhouette wrote: post #51
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…

I'm not sure I understand where the fonts on that page are coming from. They don't seem to be the serious Adobe professional fonts, many of which are available from font-as-a-service providers at a cost. Rather, they seem to be a lot of familiar things people are already using via Google Web Fonts and other free sources: Arvo, PT Sans, League Gothic, etc. Some (all?) of these are available under quite open licences,…

Chunk is a serious font, we just bought 30 licenses for a variant of it (chunk five) a few months ago.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by goldfeld »

pdeuchler wrote: post #8
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

Actually, Brackets itself started inside Adobe by a group of employees, so Edge Code is their distribution package as much as Chrome is to Chromium. I can't see it in a negative light, I think they're getting this right.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by ricardobeat »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #52
clarkdave wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

That post claims that fonts don't have a fallback mechanism for when a font fails to load, but fonts have had fallbacks for as long as we've had CSS: font-family: "Obscure Font", "Common Font", sans-serif;

I don't know the current state of things, but a failed font download used to result in blank/transparent text in some browsers, ignoring the fallback font.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by empire29 »

goldfeld wrote: post #62
pdeuchler wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Actually, Brackets itself started inside Adobe by a group of employees, so Edge Code is their distribution package as much as Chrome is to Chromium. I can't see it in a negative light, I think they're getting this right.

Adobe is following this "open core" approach on several of its newer offerings. For Instance adobe

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by parkov »

znowi wrote: post #58

This is frustrating. I've spent 10 minutes on their site, checked out the links, and still can't figure out how to browse their font collection. Am I supposed to sign up with this Edge tool to do that? By contrast, see http://www.google.com/webfonts . You land there and start working.

I found that equally baffling. I threw together a page that displays the best (according to Adobe[1]) webfonts of the bunch: http://jsbin.com/itayep

[1] http://html.adobe.com/edge/webfonts/#edgeWebFonts

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by mavelikara »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #49

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.

Googling did not help, so can anyone please provide a link to the other announcement?
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