Manufacturer Adobe Systems Online services Embedded fonts Founded 2008 | Type Design Service Website typekit.com Parent organization Adobe Systems | |
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Release date September 9, 2009 (2009-09-09) Introductory price Free trial
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Typekit is a service which allows designers and developers to use high-quality fonts in their work through a subscription plan to their font library. Fonts may be used on customers' websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on their computers.
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Characteristics
Typekit is available to the public and allows subscribers to get access under a single licensing agreement to the Typekit font library, which, as of August 2015, consists of more than 1,100 typefaces from a variety of foundries. The fonts are offered as a standalone service and as part of Adobe's Creative Cloud.
The service uses the @font-face CSS property and JavaScript.
Typekit has been hailed as "revolutionary" for its promise to enrich typography on the web and make it more similar to print.
History
Typekit was launched in September 2009 by Small Batch, Inc., a company run by creators of the Google Analytics service. In October 2011, the service was acquired by Adobe.
Alternatives
Google introduced a competing, free service named Google Web Fonts in May 2010.
Clearleft and OmniTI launched Fontdeck in June 2010.
Font Bureau and Ascender Corporation launched the Webtype service in October 2010.