Adobe Announces Acquisition Of Typekit

Oct 3, 2011

It’s fair to say that those close to the development of Web Fonts expected Typekit to be acquired by somebody. Well, today somebody did.

Adobe Buys Phonegap And Typekit for Better Web Tools

The Typekit Blog Announcement

And Adobe’s press release: Adobe Acquires Web Typography Innovator Typekit

A good thing? A bad thing? An inconsequential thing? Who knows?

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da bishop March 21, 2012 at 4:55 am

Well, Adobe are sitting on a huge stockpile of high quality fonts, so that’s a plus.

However, Adobe are a big, lazy company. Everything is a cash cow to their upper management, so I don’t expect wonders in the future from TypeKit. The focus will be on leveraging big revenues from huge corporate customers.

Richard Fink March 21, 2012 at 10:43 am

I agree that the focus will be on catching the “big fish” – the big corporate customers. But in the end those customers might end up going with Google Web Fonts for free.

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