Adobe Typekit for Designers

Adobe Typekit for designers

Adobe Typekit for designers Find the perfect font for your designs Adobe Creative Cloud includes a new way to access and design with fonts in your creative work—Typekit desktop fonts. You can now sync fonts to your desktop and use those fonts locally in any application. Choose from a growing library of more than 1,000 fonts, starting with over 200 font families from major foundries such as Adobe, URW++, FontFont, ParaType, and more.

About Typekit Find the perfect font for your designs This guide describes Adobe Typekit desktop fonts and how they can be used by designers. Current offerings include fonts from the following foundries: • Adobe • Dada Studio • Dalton Maag • exljbris Font Foundry • FontFont • Just Another Foundry • Mark Simonson Studio

Typekit was founded in 2008 by some of the industry’s most experienced designers and developers, and was acquired by Adobe in 2011. Adobe Typekit is a subscription service that provides access to a library of thousands of premium fonts from top commercial foundries and independent type designers. Thanks to the Typekit web font service, text content on millions of websites can retain beautiful design without losing important searchability. Now, Typekit (https://typekit.com) is expanding its offerings to include Typekit desktop fonts, allowing you to keep your font selection consistent across print and web projects.

Introducing Typekit desktop fonts As part of your Creative Cloud membership, you can access Typekit fonts for the desktop and web in a single membership. There’s no installer, no need for a font management program; you can immediately start using the selected fonts in all of your applications that support desktop fonts, including Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and other desktop applications. In addition, both Illustrator CC and InDesign CC offer direct access to Typekit desktop fonts right in their font menus, and InDesign finds missing Typekit fonts for you when the file is opened and prompts you to sync them with a single click.

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To explore Typekit fonts, first install the Creative Cloud desktop app. Make sure that file syncing is enabled from the panel options, choose the Fonts pane from the Creative Cloud app and click Browse Fonts on Typekit.

Creative Cloud and Typekit: Finding the perfect font From the Creative Cloud desktop app, select the Fonts option, and click Browse Fonts on Typekit. On the Typekit site, you can refine your search by font classification (e.g., serif, sans serif, slab serif, script, blackletter, monospaced, handwriting, decorative), or search for a font by name.

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Available for desktop Search by properties Browse the Typekit offerings and filter your search by name, by foundry, and by classification, such as sans serif, slab, or decorative. Filter by properties such as weight, width, and x-height. Expand the initial list of 16 fonts by clicking Load more fonts.

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Includes the minimum characters necessary to support each language. You may need to enable the “all characters” subset in your kit for some languages.

You can choose from fonts available for web use, desktop use, or web and desktop use, since both are offered through Typekit. Take advantage of the Properties options to refine your search by attributes such as classification, weight, width, x-height, and contrast. To learn even more about a font family, click on a tile in the Browse Fonts window. Then, select a tab to view Weights and Styles, Specimens, Type Tester, and Browser Samples.

Click the font family tile to see more details and learn about the foundry.

In the Weights and Styles tab, view all of the members of the font family. Click the Use Fonts button to sync the font to your desktop.

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You can view foundry information, classification, recommendations, and properties in all of the detail screens. Click the Use Fonts button in any screen to sync the font to your desktop.

In the Type Tester tab, choose a style, and enter your own text to view the text in that style.

To view the styles within the font family at multiple sizes, choose the Specimens tab.

In the Specimens tab, view the styles in the font family at sizes from 9pt to 36pt. Choose from the style pulldown menu to change the displayed style. To see a more extensive display of specimen text, click the Open expanded Web Font Specimen option.

Because different browsers render web fonts differently on various operating systems, Typekit also provides a built-in preview option in the Browser Samples tab that allows you to choose a font style, then select an operating system and cycle through the Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer browsers.

In the Browser Samples tab, preview how a web font style would appear in multiple browsers on different operating systems.

Once you’ve found the perfect font family to use on your desktop, select Use Fonts, then choose Sync To Your Computer Using Creative Cloud, and click Done.

Choose how you want to use the chosen font family—web, desktop, or both.


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Synced fonts are automatically available for all of your desktop applications—not just those available in Creative Cloud. You can use Typekit desktop fonts in non-Adobe tools such as Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint. This process is managed through the Creative Cloud desktop app as long as your Creative Cloud membership is active. Fonts synced to your desktop through Creative Cloud do not appear in font management software; they are managed thorugh the Creative Cloud app. There is no change to your existing font management setup or font files organization.

Once you have selected fonts, Typekit makes them available through the Creative Cloud app. If you have syncing turned on, the fonts will then be added to the font menus in all of your applications that support desktop fonts.

Once the fonts are synced to your computer, a quick notification is displayed, indicating how many fonts have been added.

You are notified that new fonts have been added, and an update entry is added to the Home pane of the Creative Cloud application.

File Sync and desktop fonts

Typekit desktop fonts are immediately available in all of your applications.

If you are uploading large files to Creative Cloud while you sync Typekit desktop fonts, there may be a slight delay in obtaining Typekit desktop fonts until file upload is completed.

Choose the added fonts from the font menu in your application.

If you select a font that is already active on your system, you will receive an alert that the new font cannot be added, due to a conflict.


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About fonts for web design Web fonts allow you to use fonts that are not installed on the viewer’s computer. With web fonts the text scales up and down cleanly with the browser zoom level, and text content loads quickly. Also, the text you create is searchable, and is accessible for visitors who are visually impaired. The Adobe Typekit service makes it easy to implement web fonts using “kits.” Web-safe fonts are a limited list of fonts that are installed on most Windows® and Mac computers, and used as default fonts in the browser. If the first choice (Helvetica, for example) is not available on a visitor’s computer, the site will look for the next font, such as Arial. This results in differences in the appearance and layout of web page designs on one user’s computer versus another user’s computer.

If you select a font that is already installed conventionally and activated by your system or a font management program, you’re informed of the conflict. If you would like to replace the version on your computer with the one from Typekit, deactivate or uninstall the local version using your font management software.

In the Creative Cloud app, choose Manage Fonts to view the fonts that are currently synced to your desktop, add more fonts, and remove unneeded fonts. You can also download non-Latin fonts via the Creative Cloud app.

To see all the fonts you’ve synced to your desktop through Creative Cloud, click Manage Fonts In the Creative Cloud app. You can also remove any fonts you no longer plan to use; you can always add them back later.

Because you can use Creative Cloud on two of your computers, your Typekit desktop font selections are automatically synced to both computers.

Removing Typekit desktop fonts Choose Manage Fonts in the Creative Cloud app, then click Remove to deactivate a Typekit desktop font. You’ll receive an alert indicating that the font has been removed, and it will no longer appear in the font menus of your applications.

Click Manage Fonts to view your account information, see a list of synced fonts, and remove Typekit desktop fonts you no longer need.

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Typekit desktop fonts are OpenType® fonts—they are no different in appearance and design functionality from any other fonts you have purchased conventionally. An OpenType font may be in one of two formats: either TrueType Format (.TTF) or Compact Font Format (.OTF). Typekit will serve either version, depending upon what the originating font foundry supplies to their customers.

Creative Cloud membership plan options Typekit desktop fonts are available as part of complete Creative Cloud plans for individuals, teams, and education, as well as for single-app Creative Cloud plans. Customers with free Creative Cloud memberships have access to a limited subset of the desktop font library from Typekit.

Collaborating with Typekit desktop fonts

About Font Licensing • Most existing end-user licensing agreements (EULAs) for fonts stipulate that you are not allowed to send font files to third parties, unless the recipient already has a license to use the font. • When both parties—for example, a designer and a collaborator, or a designer and a print service provider—are Creative Cloud members, this ensures that both entities are in full compliance with the EULA . • The Typekit desktop fonts Terms of Use (TOU) allows you to embed fonts in PDFs, EPUBs, and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite projects. • Typekit desktop fonts have a single consistent TOU for all fonts delivered through Typekit and Creative Cloud—no more managing separate agreements from different font foundries

If you are using Typekit desktop fonts and collaborating with others who are not Creative Cloud members, e.g., sharing a layered Photoshop file that contains text created with Typekit desktop fonts, those collaborators will need to obtain the necessary fonts either by joining Creative Cloud, subscribing to Typekit, or purchasing the fonts directly from font foundries. If collaborators or clients already own the font, they just need to activate it with their font management software. As an alternative, you can convert the text to outlines, but you will sacrifice editability. If your collaborator is a Typekit subscriber, but not a member of Creative Cloud, Typekit desktop fonts are included with Typekit Portfolio, Performance, or Business plan subscriptions.

Usage and licensing for Typekit desktop fonts You can use Typekit desktop fonts as you would use any active fonts on your system: designing with them in InDesign page layouts or Illustrator projects, creating text effects or designing web layouts in Photoshop images, producing Microsoft® Word documents, and more. They can be embedded in PDFs, EPUBs, SWF files, and DPS projects, and can be converted to outlines. They can also be used to create both personal and commercial content. However, just like conventionally licensed fonts, they cannot be embedded in native or mobile applications (except DPS apps created from InDesign), and you are not allowed to post them on the web for downloading. As with conventionally licensed fonts, the licensing of Typekit desktop fonts does not permit transferring font files to another user who does not have a license to use them. However, if you are collaborating with someone who is not a Creative Cloud member, the collaborator can either join Creative Cloud or subscribe to Typekit, and have access to all the same fonts you are using in projects. They can also purchase the necessary fonts from type foundries. Because of licensing restrictions, Typekit desktop fonts cannot be packaged by InDesign or Illustrator. Any of your conventionally licensed fonts, however, will still be included in InDesign or Illustrator packages. If you submit packaged files to a print provider who also subscribes to Creative Cloud, they will have access to the Typekit desktop fonts service, and the same fonts.

Terms of use Fonts obtained through the Typekit desktop fonts service are subject to the same licensing as other Creative Cloud applications and services: You can install the desktop applications available in Creative Cloud on your primary computer and one backup computer. So, if you have a Mac at home and a PC at work, you can install your applications on both as long as they are not running at the same time. See the end user license agreement for more information: http://www.adobe.com/ products/eulas/#creativecloud. See http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/buying-guide.html and https://typekit.com/plans for pricing details. If you end your membership or uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app, Typekit desktop fonts will be removed, and the fonts obtained through and managed by the Creative Cloud desktop app will no longer be available to any of your applications.


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Adobe Edge Web Fonts Adobe Edge Web Fonts are managed by the Typekit service independently of Creative Cloud; if you quit the Creative Cloud app, any web fonts you have added to Adobe Muse, Dreamweaver, Edge Animate, Edge Reflow, or Edge Code will still be available. Adobe Edge Fonts are available only in Adobe Muse, Dreamweaver, Edge Animate, Edge Reflow, and Edge Code; they are web-only, and will not be available to other applications.

Using Typekit desktop fonts in Creative Cloud design applications Typekit desktop fonts function exactly like any of your other fonts while you’re designing in InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop. The fonts are available in your font menus, and can be used just like the OpenType fonts you already know. In addition, Illustrator CC and InDesign CC offer in-product integration with easy access to the Typekit font service, and more, described below.

InDesign CC InDesign CC offers a convenient new way to browse and sort Typekit fonts, right in the font menu. Quick access to Typekit desktop fonts: Click the Add Fonts from Typekit button in the Character pulldown in InDesign CC to browse Typekit fonts.

Plus, new functionality searches the Typekit desktop fonts library (or fonts that are not active on your system) when opening an InDesign file, reducing the chance of the “missing font” warning.

Missing Fonts: To replace missing fonts with other fonts on your system, click the Find Font button. To sync fonts from Typekit, click the SyncFonts button.

InDesign CC will not package Typekit desktop fonts, but will continue to package conventionally licensed fonts, except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts, which have never been packaged in InDesign. If a print provider requires that you package an InDesign CC file using Typekit desktop fonts, the printer can obtain the necessary fonts through a Creative Cloud membership. If you have provided an InDesign file as InDesign Markup Language (IDML) file to a print provider or client using an older version of InDesign, the recipient will need to obtain the fonts either by joining Creative Cloud, subscribing to the Typekit service or by purchasing the fonts directly from a font foundry. You can convert the text to outlines, but you will sacrifice editability. Since Typekit desktop fonts can be embedded in PDFs, this is the preferred format for print file submission.

Illustrator CC Illustrator CC offers a convenient new way to browse and sort Typekit fonts, right in the font menu. Quick access to Typekit desktop fonts: Click the Add Fonts from Typekit button in the Character pulldown in Illustrator CC to browse Typekit fonts.

Illustrator CC will not package Typekit desktop fonts, but will continue to package conventionally licensed fonts, except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts, which have never been packaged by Illustrator. Recipients who are Creative Cloud members or Typekit subscribers can easily obtain the fonts through their online service. If you have backsaved for a recipient who is using an older version of Illustrator, they can join Creative Cloud, get a Typekit subscription, or purchase the fonts directly from a font foundry. You can convert text to outlines, but it will become vector shapes and no longer be editable text. Since Typekit desktop fonts can be embedded in PDFs, this is the preferred format for print file submission.


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Photoshop CC

Creative Cloud offline If the Creative Cloud app is running, but there is no internet connection, the Creative Cloud icon is grayed out.

If you send a Photoshop file containing live text which uses Typekit desktop fonts to someone who does not have a Creative Cloud membership, the recipient will need to join Creative Cloud, get a Typekit subscription, or purchase the font directly from a font foundry. You can convert the text to a shape layer, but type will become vector shapes, and will no longer be editable text. Tip: if the file is not intended to be edited by the recipient, save a copy as a Photoshop PDF with no compression or resampling; any fonts will be embedded, and the file will display and print correctly.

FAQ Are Typekit desktop fonts the same as the Adobe Font Folio? No. While some of the fonts from Adobe Font Folio are also available as part of Typekit desktop fonts, each source also contains fonts that are unique to that product. Font Folio will still be available for purchase, and its licensing will remain perpetual, as in the past.

Can I purchase the same fonts directly from font foundries? Yes. Many of the same fonts are available as either conventionally-purchased fonts or through the Typekit service; you can choose to acquire them either way.

Does the Creative Cloud desktop app need to be running in the background for fonts to be active? Yes. If you quit the Creative Cloud app or turn off file and font syncing, Typekit desktop fonts will be temporarily unavailable on your system for InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and other apps that use desktop fonts. Dreamweaver, Adobe Muse, Edge Animate, Edge Reflow, and Edge Code use the Typekit web fonts service, so those web fonts will still be available. Just relaunch the Creative Cloud app or resume syncing to restore desktop font access.

Are Typekit desktop fonts still available if I have no internet connection? Yes. Typekit desktop fonts that you have already synced will be available to all of your applications, even if you are offline. However, you will not be able to manage fonts or browse for new fonts.

The Creative Cloud app is available even if you are offline. While you cannot browse or manage fonts without an internet connection, Typekit desktop fonts are still active for your applications.

What happens to Typekit desktop fonts if I end my Creative Cloud membership? Typekit desktop fonts are available for desktop use as long as your Creative Cloud membership remains active and the Creative Cloud desktop app is open. If your Creative Cloud subscription is ended or the Creative Cloud desktop app is uninstalled, Typekit desktop fonts will be removed.


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What happens to published EPUB files or Digital Publishing Suite apps that contain Typekit Desktop fonts if I end my Creative Cloud membership? Creative Cloud membership only manages the availability of the font on your desktop. There is no impact on published EPUB files or DPS apps when a Creative Cloud membership is ended.

Can I create content for commercial use that includes Typekit desktop fonts? Yes, both the Typekit Terms of Use (TOU) and the Adobe Type Library End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) allow commercial use. No additional costs are needed to create and distribute commercial content, such as PDFs, that use Typekit desktop fonts or fonts from the Adobe Type Library.

What if my print service provider requires me to send a packaged version of an InDesign or Illustrator project? The Typekit TOU do not allow copying or moving of font data that has been synced to your desktop computer. Print service providers will be able to access desktop fonts through their own Creative Cloud or Typekit subscriptions, or you can create a PDF to transfer for print output. Note that most existing font license agreements—including those for the Adobe Type Library and Font Folio—do not allow sending font files to a third party, unless the third party has a license to the same font.

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