Typekit Now Available for Adobe ID Users

Michael Garrity — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:30:00 GMT

Popular font provider Typekit, purchased by Adobe back in October, has received an update that allows webmasters and designers to access its non-standard fonts using an Adobe ID.

Now, current Adobe ID holders are able to sign in to Typekit with their previously registered username and password. It also encourages others to take the time to sign up for an Adobe ID, making it possible for them to take advantage of Adobe’s Creative Cloud service launching in the next few months.

This also means that Typekit users can utilize Adobe ID support, which has been reflected in a recent update of the Typekit terms of use that have moved to the standard Adobe privacy policy, bringing it in line with Adobe’s traditional practices and opening the door for new features in the future.

Those old-school Typekit users who want to carry on using their current Typekit logins will be allowed to do so, although the terms of use changes will still apply.

In addition to updating the privacy policy, Adobe has disabled the use of third-party Web analytics within kits, which had been used to gather data about the “browser landscape,” as well as traffic across the various kits. Third-party analytics tools have been removed from all of the kits published after September 12 of last year.

Typekit has also announced that all night weights (and corresponding italics) of Darden Studio’s Jubilat font are now available in its library.

Adobe News from MAX 2011

Michael Garrity — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:30:00 GMT

The Adobe MAX 2011 technology conference, which is running through October 5, has seen the software company make a number of big announcements about new products or product enhancements.

Some of the biggest news came out yesterday when Adobe officially announced the acquisition of privately-held Typekit Inc., a subsciption-based cloud service that delivers a variety of high-quality fonts to designers and developers.

Currently, Typekit has over 250,000 customers, including sites like The New York Times, IGN, Condé Nast and many more.

The acquisition of Typekit is going to be a way to bolster Adobe's biggest new initiative, which was also announced at the conference, the Adobe Creative Cloud. Explained by the company as a redefinition of "the content creation process," the Creative Cloud will be a hosted service that allows users to access content in the cloud such as desktop and/or tablet applications and essential creative services; it also allows users to share their best work with others.

Typekit will exist as a standalone service at first, and eventually it will be integrated into the Creative Cloud.

"Adobe Creative Cloud reinvents creative expression by enabling a new generation of services for creativity and publishing," says Kevin Lynch, Adobe's Chief Technology Officer. "The move to the Creative Cloud is a major component in the transformation of Adobe."

The three major features of the cloud will be Applications, which includes access to the portfolio of Adobe Creative Suite tools, Services and Community.

Users can also use the Creative Cloud's Applications feature to access Adobe Touch Apps, their other major release to come out of MAX 2011. Touch Apps is a collection of six new touch screen applications that can be run on both Android and iOS tablets that enable "creative professionals to explore ideas and present their work anytime, anywhere."

The apps include:

- Adobe Photoshop Touch: For users to alter images using core Photoshop features on-the-go

- Adobe Collage: Allows users to capture and refine ideas by combining images, drawings, text and Creative Suite files

- Adobe Debut: An app that lets users present designs anywhere

- Adobe Ideas: A vector-based drawing tool that uses a stylus or finger

- Adobe Kuler: A color theme generator

- Adobe Proto: Allows users to develop interactive wireframes, website prototypes and mobile apps with a touch-based interface

Other big news from the conference includes a definitive agreement to acquire Nitobi Software, the creator of PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build, the future release of Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Single Edition, which allows freelance designers and small firms "to publish interactive content created with Adobe InDesign CS5.5 on the iPad, a partnership with LG and TiVo to bring Flash-based applications through Adobe AIR to connected home televisions and the general availability of Flash Player 11 and AIR 3.

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