Myriad Devanagari and Myriad Bengali: New Brahmic type from Adobe Type

It is with great satisfaction that I present the two newest additions from Adobe Type to the Typekit library, Myriad Devanagari and Myriad Bengali. Designed by Vaibhav Singh and Neelakash Kshetrimayum, respectively, these typefaces translate the design of our popular Myriad family to the most-used writing systems of India.

From the beginning, the concept for these families was to make them harmonize in spirit with Myriad, Adobe’s best-loved sans serif design, and to continue building out the general usability for the Myriad superfamily. Existing Myriad families already included script coverage for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic writing systems. Designing Devanagari …

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Paul D. Hunt · October 25, 2017 · Fonts on Typekit

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Quick update to our Myriad release: Perpetual licenses for Bengali & Devanagari extensions are up on @Fontspring https://t.co/6qOXSEAhds

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New variable fonts from Adobe Originals

Dan Rhatigan · October 19, 2017 · Making Type

Photoshop and Illustrator announced plenty of new features at Adobe MAX this week, include some exciting typographic features we’ve been anticipating: support for OpenType variable fonts.

This new font format allows users to customize the styles within a typeface design, effectively giving them an entire family of fonts in a single file. We’ve included a few Adobe Originals families with this release of Illustrator and Photoshop to make it easier for you to explore what variable fonts can do.

Here’s a quick walkthrough of this week’s typographic updates from the Photoshop team.

Don’t miss the Illustrator announcement, either, which introduces its own nifty typographic …

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Introducing visual search on Typekit

Marko Iskander · October 18, 2017 · Announcements

Whether your inspiration comes from signage, posters, flat artwork, or that weird billboard you drive by all the time, our visual search feature brings a new dimension to the way you find type with Typekit. We launched an Early Access preview for visual search back in September, and today we’re very proud to announce that we’ve rolled these capabilities out to everyone.

Start with a photo of type you’ve seen, and send it through visual search to find the fonts in our inventory that are visually similar to it. From your desktop or your mobile device, you can highlight a specific line of type from …

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Adobe Sensei as a service: Visual search APIs released for developers

Steve Ross · October 18, 2017 · Using Type

If you’re a developer who loves type, and you want to share that love with the people using your apps — we’ve got great news. Starting today, we’ve made the API for our visual search feature available on adobe.io.

Visual search from Typekit pairs our team’s typographic savvy with Adobe Sensei’s machine-learning technology, and in fact is the first Adobe Sensei capability to be released to the public as a service. With these APIs, your users can upload any photo of lettering or type and visual search will return a list of similar typefaces on Typekit.

When you enable visual search from Typekit in …

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Type sessions at Adobe MAX

Meghan Arnold · October 16, 2017 · Type Community

Last week we told you all about what we have going on in our Typekit City booth at Adobe MAX. Today we want to highlight the awesome type-centric talks and workshops going on at the conference, as well as a some special events. There’s even a couple of livestreams hosted by our own Ariadne Remoundakis for those tuning in from home.

Tuesday, October 17

8:30 am to 5 pm
Pre-Conference Workshop: Hand-drawn Type & Lettering: From Line to Sign
Dr. Shelley Gruendler

Good design needs good typography and great design needs great typography. Individual letters are the base for nearly all forms of communication …

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Advanced web font loading with Typekit’s CSS embed code

Persa Zula · October 11, 2017 · Using Type

When we introduced our CSS-only embed code, we wanted to provide users with the feature they’ve been asking us for over the last several years – a simple, JavaScript-less, single line embed code that they could use anywhere.

But some of you may have noticed that something is missing. In our JavaScript embed code, we give you the opportunity to control things such as loading the fonts asynchronously, and adding custom timeout for when the embed code should stop trying to load fonts on your page for users. But you don’t have to give up on all of those optimizations that JavaScript can help …

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An interview with Nicole Dotin of Process Type Foundry

Mandy Brown · August 25, 2011 · Type Community

Tim Brown, Typekit’s Type Manager, interviews Nicole Dotin, typeface designer and partner at Process Type Foundry, on being a generalist, the wild web of web fonts, the future of type design, and more.

Tim Brown: Hi Nicole. Introduce yourself!

Nicole Dotin: Well, I’m a typeface designer and part owner of the Process Type Foundry. Although I started designing type in 2006 after attending the University of Reading, I’m only now finishing my first typeface which is set to be released this year. Before that, I taught typography and web design at the university level, I’ve worked as a web and graphic designer, and I …

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Kerning on the Web

Bram Stein · February 5, 2014 Fonts on Typekit

Kerning can refer to one of two things: spacing instructions that type designers put into font files to mitigate awkward character combinations, or spacing adjustments that graphic designers make as they typeset text. In today’s post, we’re talking about the former, though we’ve covered the use of Kern.js and Lettering.js here before for readers interested in learning even more.

Imagine each character in a string of text has a box drawn around its outer edges. Without kerning, characters would line up at the edges of these boxes. Kerning enables these edges to overlap so the space between each character can be adjusted to be tighter …

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From Broadsides to Websites: Miguel Sousa brings wood type to digital life with HWT Gothic Round

Nicole Miñoza · October 9, 2013 Making Type

Last week, we talked about the adventures of Adobe type designer Miguel Sousa as he traveled the US conducting research on his sabbatical project, a revival of a historic wood typeface. He carefully paged through gorgeously produced antique specimen books and studied the shopworn surfaces of giant wooden letters stained with the ghosts of ink from bygone eras. Miguel printed with rare alphabets hewn from nineteenth-century timber, fueling his imagination as he worked to craft a typeface that would smoothly meld historical charm with advanced typographic technology.

The result of Miguel’s summer sabbatical journey—along with many months spent on research and type design and production …

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