Typekit purchased by Adobe

On October 3, 2011, Typekit service, whose business is based on paid access to commercial fonts for web site design using the CSS @ font-face directive, was acquired by Adobe. This very day it was possible to read about it in a blog at Typekit and in the press release of Adobe. According to Adobe, Typekit (currently numbering about a quarter of a million users, including the New York Times and Wordpress) will eventually become part of the Adobe Creative Cloud project.

It should be noted that Adobe could already be counted among Internet type merchants; just in their collection of Adobe Web Fonts the number of fonts exceeded a couple of hundred, while Typekit trades in the thousands. It is useful to compare this with the number of fonts in the collection of the Adobe Type Library, which are sold for off-Internet use - their number exceeds 2300 .

Judging by the comments of readers of Typekit blog , some users are alarmed by their oversoldness, gloomily waiting for a rise in prices or some other trouble. But that's as usual.
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Personally, I never particularly liked Typekit, because, to be honest, I couldn’t get their font preview to work with Russian letters ( in Firefox anyway ), either in the font library view mode using Russian writing , or in the Type Tester tool. Latin letters (for example, for English) work fine, but Cyrillic - no. While the free fonts Google Web Fonts site has no problems with Cyrillic.

As for Adobe, an attempt to open them in the browser of the Russian store leads to a warning of a secure connection certificate that has expired 20 days ago.