Update: The desktop font sync feature is now rolling out in limited batches. Read our update to learn how to sign up for early access.
Great typography is critical to great design, so great typefaces should be easily accessible everywhere they’re needed. Typekit has spent the last four years bringing type to the web, and today we’re giving you a sneak peek at the next step in our evolution: desktop fonts and web fonts together in a single subscription.
We’ll be making fonts in the Typekit library available for desktop use, starting with 175 font families from 7 top-tier foundries. You’ll be able to sync them to your desktop and use them in all your applications for web mockups, print design, word processing, and more.
Here’s Typekit’s own Ben Welch to show you how it works:
Desktop font syncing is a part of the next major update to Adobe Creative Cloud, which was just announced this morning and will launch in mid-June. (Watch the keynote here.) Desktop fonts will be included with Typekit Portfolio, Performance, and Business plans, as well as paid Creative Cloud subscriptions.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be publishing in-depth explorations of the typefaces coming from each participating foundry partner: Adobe, exljbris, FontFont, Mark Simonson Studio, ParaType, TypeTogether, URW++, and Dalton Maag. Keep an eye on the blog!