Although now part of history—thanks to OpenType—one of the legacy PostScript font formats that has some mystique surrounding it is Type 42, mainly because of the apparent significance of that number in a particular series of books. I...

This is our fifth post in an ongoing series about type rendering on the web. Read the first, second, third, fourth, sixth, and final posts. Whether a typeface has been designed or adapted for screen use significantly influences how it...

We’re excited to announce that FF Tisa Sans is now available in the Typekit subscription library. Its sibling serif, FF Tisa, is one of your favorite fonts, and we think FF Tisa Sans will be too. Superfamilies like Tisa (sans and...

Please join us in welcoming the storied Berthold Types to Typekit! Similar to our partnerships with FontFont, Process Type Foundry, and ARS Type, you can now purchase web licensing for your favorite Berthold fonts and use them on Typekit...

We’re proud to host the first-ever Hike Conference tomorrow, April 5th, at Adobe’s San Francisco office. Founded by Laura Helen Winn of Form and Future and Jason Schwartz of The Secret Handshake, Hike Conference is a one-day event...

We’re making a few changes to our browser support that will improve the web font serving experience in a few new places. In this post, we’d like to walk you through those updates. Introducing “bulletproof” CSS font fallbacks We’re often...

As of September 2016, the members of the Adobe Type team have been on the job an average of twenty years. Each has been part of the team anywhere from five years to almost thirty, with a number of us well past the twenty-year mark. Each...

I’m Adobe’s product manager for fonts and global typography. Some might wonder how I got here – this posting is for those few inquisitive souls. I started in DTP in the mid-80s, so my early background is as an end user, and I try very...

An election, a travel plan, and the road ahead in this week’s sites we like. Twitter jumps into the election season with a supplement to more traditional polling: the Twitter Political Index, which measures “the sentiment of Twitter...

As part of our ongoing work on improving our web font serving performance, we’re adding support for the WOFF2 font format. The WOFF2 format succeeds the ubiquitous WOFF format and offers better compression than any other font...