14 DAY TRIAL // Following the success of its previous releases for its educational blog network (Tuts+), Envato rolled out at the start of May 2010 another tutorial service. Mainly geared toward mobile development and the smartphone market, the new site called MobileTuts will feature articles, tutorials and round-ups about the mobile industry and phones in general.
“Topics will include native development with the iPhone, Android, Windows and Blackberry platforms, cross-platform development with tools like Titanium and Phone Gap, and techniques for building mobile web apps and mobile accessible web sites with HTML 5,” the announcement reads.
Envato chose quite a leading industry guru to run the site, Mark Hammonds, software engineer and mobile applications consultant at OmniTI. Mr. Hammonds, a DC/Baltimore native, was one of the first people to publish iPhone apps in the iTunes App Store and is the co-founder and CTO of Somba Mobile.
Meanwhile, more recently, the company decided to make a push in typography sales on its marketplace, moving the “Fonts” category from its Flash-inclined marketplace ActiveDen to GraphicRiver.
Since people were mainly accessing ActiveDen for its high-quality Adobe Flash products, the fonts were overshadowed and ignored. After the move to GraphicRiver, Envato's vector and bitmap graphics specialized marketplace, the category has seen new products and a boost in sales.
If interested, the category can be accessed here, and features font files starting from $6 and going up to $8.
“Envato is super excited to announce that GraphicRiver's Font category is now open for submissions. […] This new GraphicRiver category is home to non-pixel fonts as well as all the popular font types like TTF, OTF and PFM,” the Envato announcement adds.
There are high hopes for this category to succeed just because the font marketplace has seen a recent boom, with sites like MyFonts and Typekit reaching big profits, but also contributing back to the community as well. Knowing the level of dedication Envato has gained from followers in the short period since its birth, but also due to a very low price tag, fonts and sales will be swirling out of control pretty soon.