Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web
August 16, 2010
Today marks the one-year anniversary of Typekit’s launch. It’s been an unbelievable 12 months of growth and learning, not just for us but for webfonts, web design, browser development, and so much more. And we can’t think of a better way to mark this moment than to announce one of our most exciting partnerships to date.
Adobe and Typekit are teaming up to bring some of the world’s most popular, recognizable, and respected fonts to the web. 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. These fonts look fantastic.
We’ve been using these fonts internally here at Typekit for a few weeks and the quality is simply amazing. These are the original cuts of the celebrated typefaces you’ve been waiting for, not reproductions or knockoffs of their designs. That means you can use them with the assurance that your creative work is being presented with all the accuracy and technical detail the print world has known for decades.
The Adobe type team has put a lot of work into these fonts, bringing their years of experience with type and staying focused on the best practices for the web. In addition, they have also made fonts available at every Typekit account level. You can even use Adobe Garamond with our free Trial plan! Have a look through the collection. Be inspired. Create beautiful work.
If you don’t yet have a Typekit account, it only takes a minute. Sign up for full access to thousands of fonts here. For even more details, see the announcement on Adobe’s blog.
August 16, 2010 at 8:55 am
Damn. I’m such a happy customer right now. This is amazing.
August 16, 2010 at 9:02 am
and wow, I though you’re the Chelsea player.. (P.Ferreira)
okay, it’s seriously OOT.
and Typekit, please bring up Fedra Sans and The Sans typeface please..
August 16, 2010 at 9:11 am
Although now beautifully optimized for screen, I doubt Fedra will come to Typekit as it is already offered via Typotheque. Honestly, however, these few classics being offered by Adobe feels like a more major milestone.
August 16, 2010 at 8:58 am
Awesome, worth it for Myriad alone. Keep up the good work guys!
August 16, 2010 at 8:59 am
Ok, actually this is great news. Haven’t heard any in a long time when the name Adobe was in the Headline.
August 16, 2010 at 9:01 am
This is excellent news.
August 16, 2010 at 9:02 am
Wow congrats guys — this is huge.
August 16, 2010 at 9:05 am
Thank you. I’m not sure how well these will all render on screen, but I’m so happy to see some classics.
August 16, 2010 at 9:08 am
This excited me!
August 16, 2010 at 9:10 am
And by excited, I mean excites…
August 16, 2010 at 9:08 am
Adobe Garamond, Minion, and Myriad on the web? Sounds like time to integrate Typekit into my website. Awesome!
August 16, 2010 at 9:10 am
This is simply huge, makes me an increadibly happy customer!
August 16, 2010 at 9:18 am
This was always a problem with browsers. I hope putting this on my website will be more standard than CSS that you have to do almost a CSS for every browsers without counting all versions possible.
August 16, 2010 at 9:23 am
This is indeed awesome news!
August 16, 2010 at 9:33 am
I can’t wait to change all my clients’ sites to Cooper Black!
Just kidding. Otherwise, this is awesome.
August 16, 2010 at 9:48 am
Sweet!
Congrats and what an awesome anniversary present
August 16, 2010 at 9:51 am
Wow. Now the Big Book of Font Combinations book is doubly-useful. It applies to Typekit now without a single edit
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It’s only a matter of time until all the classic typefaces are represented in Typekit. Great news!!
August 16, 2010 at 9:52 am
Unreal. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is awesome.
August 16, 2010 at 10:06 am
That’s freaking awesome. I’ve been using Minion since Roger Slimbached it on the world. It’s such a versatile font, with the charm of something inspired by the 1500s, but with an absolute modern feel.
August 16, 2010 at 10:26 am
What’s wrong with Veranda? (Ducking!)
August 16, 2010 at 10:30 am
I’d love to see Arabic fonts one day.
August 16, 2010 at 10:33 am
That is really awesome news. I was just reading Jason’s interview in 8Faces #1 where he lists Chaparral as one of his required typefaces. It’s always been one of my favorites too and to reliably use it on screen-based designs will fantastic.
The rest of the typefaces on this list are also kind of requirements for us. Excellent work, Typekit, and thank you Adobe for coming on board. Very nice!
August 16, 2010 at 10:37 am
Fantabolous!
August 16, 2010 at 10:38 am
Congratulations Typekit ! And Great news thanks !
August 16, 2010 at 10:50 am
Curious as to why the typeface examples in the post were placed as an image instead of markup…
August 16, 2010 at 11:12 am
Performance. Adding 18+ linked fonts via CSS is not exactly a best practice. We’re always testing what current browsers can handle, but for this blog post we just went with an image.
August 16, 2010 at 11:04 am
Great job, guys. Keep rocking.
August 16, 2010 at 11:09 am
Very welcome addition to the Typekit library. Can’t wait to make use of these!
August 16, 2010 at 11:15 am
This is amazing! Can’t wait to use them
August 16, 2010 at 11:38 am
Now we just need Hoefler to sign on, and this service will be unstoppable.
August 16, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Amen to that!
August 16, 2010 at 1:56 pm
You can say that again.
August 23, 2010 at 7:15 am
I would be fine with that.
August 16, 2010 at 11:39 am
Great news! Typekit is worth every penny.
August 16, 2010 at 1:12 pm
This is great news, indeed.
August 16, 2010 at 1:22 pm
own > rent
August 16, 2010 at 1:57 pm
This is probably the most exciting thing that will happen in my life week. So excited.
August 16, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Awesome. Great. Thanks a million for this.
August 16, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Great News!
August 16, 2010 at 5:16 pm
So happy about this. Just in time for a new project too!!
August 16, 2010 at 5:28 pm
How do they look in IE?
August 16, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Great question, Dimi. You can judge that for yourself using our Browser Samples feature — we provide screenshots of how every font in our library renders in all of our supported browser/OS combinations. Just look for the Browser Samples tab after clicking through to the font detail pages from this list of Adobe fonts on Typekit.
August 16, 2010 at 6:03 pm
I’d like to hear some legends about these ‘legendary’ typefaces. I was unable to find any via Google.
August 16, 2010 at 6:58 pm
As the legend goes, Odysseus encountered these typefaces in the deepest recesses of the underworld, to which they had been banished for their evils.
August 16, 2010 at 8:07 pm
We have had issues with font presentation, cufon, flash techniques etc..
This looks promising as a consistently applicable solution.
Nice!
August 17, 2010 at 12:56 am
Hell yeah, now I can finally use Myriad on my sites. So excited about this news, thank you making it happen.
August 17, 2010 at 5:41 am
This is great news! Typefaces on the web currently leave a lot to be desired. This is one step in the right direction. Keep it up!
August 17, 2010 at 7:33 am
Looking at the Browser Samples, I don’t see any use of ligatures. Is that possible?
August 17, 2010 at 1:07 pm
I just signed up last week and this happens! Awesome.
August 17, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Why are all the line samples for these Adobe fonts showing up as Lucida Grande?
I viewed the samples using Firefox 3.6.8
cheers
August 17, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I just went and checked the gallery samples here too – all displaying in Lucida Grande.
I can’t believe that no one has figured out how to make fonts work on the web yet…. it is 2010! Here I am wishing for the typographic control of QuarkXpress 1.0 – circa 1989, which after viewing the samples here, is still years away.
August 18, 2010 at 8:34 am
Hey Bill,
I’m not seeing any problems with FF 3.6.8. If you drop a note to support [at] typekit.com, we should be able to work out what’s going on.
August 18, 2010 at 6:47 am
hey cant hurt, more cool typefonts to design with.
August 18, 2010 at 9:34 pm
Congrats TypeKit, you have been making alot alot of head way in the past few months.. like a steaming train
August 19, 2010 at 5:34 pm
This is awesome! Congratulations, guys – you really are amazing!
August 19, 2010 at 6:48 pm
I’m using Cronos Pro at smithersgreene.net and I like it! Thanks.
August 20, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Hopefully, Tim Adobe Type fonts can be a successful partner yes lord
August 20, 2010 at 7:06 pm
I am now using one of those fonts. Thank you!
August 22, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Nice!
August 23, 2010 at 5:01 am
Wow
Awesome news. Great to use these fonts. Thanks for sharing this wonderful post. 
August 25, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Typekit is is growing fast. Congrats. I loved your fonts on css-tricks.com which has kindly introduced me to your amazing company.
August 27, 2010 at 11:12 am
This is simply awesome. I love Typekit.
August 27, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Absolutely superb. I’m upgrading my account so I can use the Adobe fonts. In particular, Minion Pro and Robert Slimbach’s Garamond Premier Pro are fabulous gifts to web typography. I’m converting my stuff this weekend, hopefully. You guys rock. Thank you!!!!
August 28, 2010 at 1:26 am
I agree with strayduck. Great technology. But that subscription thingie worries me a lot. Please Typekit, think about a one time fee.
August 30, 2010 at 3:51 am
Is there a way to purchase a typeface with an included Typekit Licence?
September 2, 2010 at 2:44 am
Congratulations on your partnership, Im sure this won’t be the last
September 15, 2010 at 2:28 am
It is incredible .. we can enjoy these beautiful typefaces