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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by Meai » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 5:24 AM UTC

dholowiski wrote: post #61

Silhouette wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's free here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/ChunkFive

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by digitalengineer » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 5:30 AM UTC

threedaymonk wrote: post #46

eps wrote: post #31

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You do know that PDF is an open format, right?

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

My point exactly.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by systemtrigger » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 5:47 AM UTC

Browse the fonts listed in the select box: http://2012.s3.amazonaws.com/edgefonts.html

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by mavelikara » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 5:56 AM UTC

mavelikara wrote: post #70

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?

Got it : http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by Jare » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 6:11 AM UTC

systemtrigger wrote: post #73

Browse the fonts listed in the select box: http://2012.s3.amazonaws.com/edgefonts.html

That page crashes my Chrome tab. Wonder what's the practical limit for number of custom fonts.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 7:03 AM UTC

genwin wrote: post #38

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.

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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Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by graue » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 7:37 AM UTC

mavelikara wrote: post #74

mavelikara wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Got it : http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro....

This is a good font, but to me it's nowhere near as good as Inconsolata-g, the best fixed-width font I've found.

http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by dasil003 » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 10:48 AM UTC

dholowiski wrote: post #69

lucisferre wrote: post #67

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What?

should have read "co-worker" thanks auto correct.

Wow that's more zealous auto-correct than Digg fixed-that-for-you kids.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by dsolomon » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 11:50 AM UTC

It's fonts and a pageful of bitter people who cannot figure them out.

Re: Adobe Edge Web Fonts

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Post by crisnoble » Tue, Sep 25, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

systemtrigger wrote: post #73

Browse the fonts listed in the select box: http://2012.s3.amazonaws.com/edgefonts.html

I was thinking of making something similar. Thank you for saving me some time this morning!