Famous Adobe Fonts Now Available for Web Designers on Typekit

Web typography is experiencing a rebirth of sorts after being nothing more than an afterthought for many years. Thanks to new standards, web designers have a lot more freedom in choosing the right font for their websites.

But just because they’re technically able to do it doesn’t mean they can actually do it, good fonts aren’t that easy to find even on the web, not legally, anyway. Companies like Typekit are changing that and the online font repository can now boast the addition of some of Adobe’s best known fonts to the lineup.

“Adobe and Typekit are teaming up to bring some of the world’s most popular, recognizable, and respected fonts to the web,” Typekit’s Bryan Mason announced.

“Starting today, you’ll be able to use classics like Adobe Garamond, News Gothic, Myriad, and Minion plus many more on your website — all of them newly optimized and hinted for the screen,” he added.

The announcement coincided with the one-year anniversary of the site. Typekit was launched to give web designers a place to easily and legally license fonts for the sites they’re creating.

The online font repository boasts a wide selection of embeddable fonts. It only takes a few snippets of JavaScript code to add the fonts to the site thanks to the wonders of the CSS @font-face declaration.

With the addition of the Adobe fonts, designers have a wider choice and also access to some of the most popular fonts from the print world. They’ll now be able to use the same fonts online as they do in the ads or other branding material for a company.

It took so much for the Adobe fonts to be added to Typekit, the company says, because the Adobe team spent a lot of time ensuring that the quality of the web fonts is on par with the ones for print. After this first step, more fonts from Adobe will be added to Typekit.