Export Typekit font to desktop as font file

Can Typekit fonts installed in Photoshop CC be exported to desktop as font file and used in an mobile application development?

Hi tambyra,
Typekit's license doesn't cover this use case and doesn't allow you to copy or move the font files from where they're installed on your machine by the Creative Cloud app.
I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help here. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Cheers,
Benjamin

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Muse Typekit fonts

Hello. I have a site that was created in Muse and loaded to Business Catalyst. The site uses a non web-safe font from Typekit and it was applied in Muse. You can see it here http://www.steelhaus.co.nz/
The font is not behaving so well in some browsers and I want to replace the Muse font stuff with my own @fontafce font system.
My question is, where are the Muse Typekit font files being held in BC? I can't find them anywhere. How is this working?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Grant

Hey Grant,
It's dependant on how the site is setup. I haven't exported to BC from Muse but we need to figure out if each page on the site has the full webpage code or if the site is using Page Templates. Go into your BC Admin and goto Site Manager > Page Templates and check to see if you have a default page template in there. Click it to check out the page template and see if it resembles your website design. If so, your site is likely using page templates. If not, then each page on your site is not controlled by page templates so any changes made to the Muse Webfonts would have to be made on every single page of your site.
Here are the two sections of code that are either in your page templates and/or your actual web pages on BC. Instead of removing them you could just comment them out. The Muse webfonts use javascript to add the @font-face CSS declarations to your website. If you edit the HTML source in your BC panel on a page or page template try to find these two blocks of code. The first is the javascript calling for the font:
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.documentElement.className += ' js';
    var __adobewebfontsappname__ = "muse";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.write('\x3Cscript src="' + (document.location.protocol == 'https:' ? 'https:' : 'http:')
    + '//webfonts.creativecloud.com/exo:n7,n4:all;asap:n4,n7:all.js" type="text/javascript">\x3C/script>');
</script>
And the next block of code is a stylesheet for IE:

I would do this on just one page first if the code is on every page and you aren't using templates.
Then, after you remove this code, add your own @font-face declarations to one of your stylesheets.
The last step is to edit all your CSS files, namely: site_global.css, gallery.css and you need to remove the reference to the "exo" font in both those CSS files. You can find and replace "font-family: exo, sans-serif;" and replace it with the font name from your @font-face rules.
At that point, you're all set but you'll need to remove the code above from every page before every page is set. If you use templates, just remove the code above from your page templates if it's there. The CSS, once you update them will affect all your pages once you upload or publish it on BC.

Can I use Type -- 'convert to outline' in Illustrator on Typekit fonts I've 'designated for desktop use'? I've not been able to as of yet.

I'm trying to print vinyl letters for a gallery I'm a member of and love the Cronos Pro regular font. i've designated this for desktop use and created 24 name files at 200pt. The person working with the vinyl asked if I could 'convert to outline' possibly to make the font a bit larger, I don't really know. When I tried to do this, I found that choice grayed out on the type menu. I am wondering if this means the Typekit fonts 'designated for desktop use' simply do not have the permission to be 'converted to outline'.

Cutting always requires proper paths/ outlines. This has nothing to do with the font or large format printing per se. Beyond that there should be no limitation in using fonts - as long as you can mangle them in AI, it means that somewhere those outlines exist internal to the program so the type can actually be rendered. Whatever prevents this may more likely be inherent in how you treat your text. you would have to provide more specific info on that. Either way, ask in the AI forum for more detailed answers.
Mylenium

When CC will deliver fonts from Typekit to my desktop?

Delivering fonts from Typekit to my desktop — one of the reasons I bought a subscription.
Since the the launch of CC, font and file sharing features deliver only one message "Comming soon".
When to expect these features to go live??

I'm sorry, but I do not agree with your reply Ben.
I signed up for Creative Cloud. I'm paying for that subscription. Included in that subscription, was typekit. I have read instructions, and watched Adobe.TV video's showing me how to access something - I don't have access to!
Now we are being asked to jump through hoops, sign up for "Early Access"... Beg to be considered from the first come first serve list, keep an eye on emails to see that I am lucky and have been chosen to have something I am ALREADY paying for...
EVEN WORSE!!! You are telling us, SELECTED users already have it!!
WHAT!!!!?
This is an extract from your website telling you what's included when you sign up
"Welcome to the Download Center!
Find all of the Adobe desktop applications, services and touch apps that are part of your Creative Cloud membership."
TYPEKIT is one of the items on that list.
Here is a reply from another of your own staff Liz:
1.Liz, Typekit Support,Oct 15, 2013 1:50 PM in reply to pearlyshell
Hi pearlyshell,
I'm sorry that you ran into trouble with this! Syncing fonts to your desktop is available with a full Creative Cloud membership or a Portfolio, Performance, or Business Typekit plan.
Please advise that I/we will not have to endure weeks/months of waiting for something we are already paying for and not being allowed to use.
That's like delivering someone's new car minus the new audio system that was promised and adding vinegar to the wound by telling them it's okay because aother "SELECT" owners are currently enjoying theirs!
JM
Very confused, and slight didillusioned, CC member

Coming soon: Creative cloud will deliver fonts from typekit to your desktop

We have a couple of users at our organization that user adobe creative cloud. Some users are able to use the Files , Fonts and Behance section while on other users it shows as coming soon: Creative cloud will deliver fonts from typekit to your desktop. Could anyone please advise how to activate this for all our users using creative cloud. I have tried calling adobe support, been hung up on after waiting over 30 mins for a call back and being put on hold for 20 mins. Your assiatacne will be much appreacited .
Vincent Wayodi
KLIM Technical Riding Gear
3753 County Line Road | Rigby, Idaho 83442
p 208.552.7433 x1127 | f 208.552.1615

Hi Wayodi,
I'm sorry you ran into trouble here. Right now, we're still in the early access phase of rolling this feature out. Would you please drop a line to: [email protected] with all of the emails for each Adobe ID you would like to have this feature?
Once I have those, I can see about getting the invites sent out faster.
Cheers,
Benjamin

File sync returns and Typekit font sync now available!

File sync within the Creative Cloud desktop app is back! And font sync is now available for the first time.
Looks like it is rolling out gradually. You can register at http://blogs.adobe.com/creativecloud/file-and-typekit-font-sync-rolling-out/
And here's an email I received about it:

That is correct. This functionality is being rolled out incrementally - that is, some folks will receive access to this first (in fact, some already have it now), and others will be added as soon as we can.
If you have not received an email similar to the one above, and you want to get early access to these functions, follow the link on the Creative Cloud Team Blog to sign up for the program. Details are there.

How do you add/use typekit fonts that are not edge web fonts?

I am just trying out the new Muse CC 2014.1 (August) release and was keen to try the new font facilities. As far as I can see that while I can now add other fonts for which I have downloaded web font files via the Self Hosted Web Fonts function, Typekit fonts that are not "Adobe Edge Web Fonts" are effectively unavailable? Have I missed something.
As an example I want to use the Proxima Nova web font family. I have selected it on the type kit site, set them up to Sync via my Creative Cloud account. So for example if I select a font in Photoshop CC or Illustrator, the Proxima Nova fonts appear. Even ok in Word for Mac. They do not appear in Muse.
To add them as self hosted web fonts, I would need to physically download the relevant fonts files and install them on my desktop using the OS-X font tool. However as they are being sync'd via Creative Cloud this shouldn't be necessary should it? Also I don't see an option for doing so on the typekit site.
Any help or guidance would be very welcome.
PS: I seem to have a separate issue with the Creative Cloud app, which is not listing fonts under the Assets tab. But I don't think that is related as they are working fine for Photoshop, etc.

Hi David,
I'm sorry that you ran into trouble with this. To add fonts from Typekit to your Muse website, you will want to use the web fonts path instead of desktop fonts. (You can use a desktop font synced from Typekit in your Muse design, but it will exported as an image the same as any other system font.)
There are a couple options for using Typekit web fonts in Muse:
o) The Muse Insider wrote a post on how to insert the Typekit embed code from the Muse interface:
http://museinsider.com/how-to-add-typekit-fonts-to-your-muse-site.html
o) Or you can add the embed code to the Page Properties dialog within Muse, which will include it in the <head> of the page when you export your website. The steps are the same as this tutorial, but you will add the Typekit embed code to Muse instead of into your page directly:
TYPEKIT | Adding fonts to your site
Note that in either case the Typekit fonts will not be displayed in the Muse preview window. You'll need to publish your site to a server in order for the Typekit fonts to be loaded into the page.
If those look like more coding that you are comfortable with, you might try one of the fonts which you can select from the font menu instead. Here are some that are similar to :
https://edgewebfonts.adobe.com/fonts#/?xHeight=high&contrast=low&class=sans-serif&width=re gular
We are also working on a more complete integration of Typekit with Muse in the future, but I can't say yet when that will be available.
>> PS: I seem to have a separate issue with the Creative Cloud app, which is not listing fonts under the Assets tab. But I don't think that is related as they are working fine for Photoshop, etc.
Do you see a "loading" icon in the tab (e.g. a blue spinner wheel)? It sounds similar to this thread; you might try these suggestions:
Re: Adobe Creative Cloud / Desktop App / Home Screen: Constant Spinning Wheel
I hope that this helps; let me know if you have any other questions. Best,
-- liz

Using Typekit fonts in print projects

I have just started using a Typekit font for my demonstrations.
However, I am interested in using it for my next book but I have questions.
Are the Typekit fonts suitable for print production? They are listed as OpenType. Is that ordinary OpenType?
The Typekit fonts don't show up in the Documet Fonts folder when the job is packaged? If I have to send native ID files to my publisher, what would they have to have to edit the job?
Are the fonts embedded in PDF files?
Anyone have any caveats I should know about?

Mario,
There is absolutely nothing underhanded about what Ben is telling you.
There are two ways you can use the Typekit fonts for print publishing workflows.
(1)     The first way is to compose in InDesign with the Typekit fonts as you would with any fonts that you have otherwise licensed and have installed on your desktop system. For the purposes of printing, export PDF (preferably PDF/X-4 settings) and send the resultant PDF file to your print service provider. All the Typekit fonts are properly embedded in the PDF file and your print service provider should have no issues with printing the text formatted with said fonts.
(2)     The second method assumes that your print service provider (or some intermediary) is going to be doing further edits to your work before producing the PDF file that you would have created per (1) above. Typically you would “package” such documents into a directory structure that copies linked content and fonts. The only difference with the Typekit fonts is that such fonts are not included in the package. But since whoever is going to do those further edits and/or PDF export also needs the CC version of InDesign, they will also have access to the same Typekit fonts that you do via the Creative Cloud software. There is no need to package the fonts from them. If they have older CS versions of InDesign, they will not be able to open your CC version InDesign document anyway.
So what is exactly the problem you are complaining about? You have access to the fonts. Your print service provider has access to the fonts (assuming they have the software necessary to even open up your InDesign document).
The only difference is that Typekti fonts are not available as “loose” font files. You can't install them on any system that isn't currently licensed for the Adobe Creative Cloud.
(For what it is worth, common practice notwithstanding, the ability to package the fonts - other than Typekit fonts and certain Asian fonts - used in an InDesign document does not free the recipient of the obligation to fully and properly license such fonts. The packaging operation is provided as a convenience, not as a substitute for properly licensing the digital assets in question!)
          - Dov

Typekit font not displaying in iPad DPS app (created by Indesign) in Web Content (Edge Animate)

I think I have tried every permutation to make this work, but I am probably missing something.
I am creating a single DPS iPad app with InDesign, and I am using a Typekit font throughout. So far so good.
I have created an Edge Animate project using the same Typekit font. In preview mode, it is fine as well.
However, when I place the Edge Animate project into a frame in InDesign and use the Web Content Folio Overlay (regardless of whether I use the .oam file or link directly .html output published by Animate), the Typekit font will not show up in the Edge Animate portion of the DPS app and will instead use a fallback font.
Can anyone suggest a way to make Typekit fonts in Edge Animate work when embedded in a DPS app? (For what it's worth, I have the same problem when embedding html output from Tumult Hype, so it seems unlikely that this is an issue with Edge Animate at all and probably has more to do with something in the way the DPS app is dealing with embedded html content.)
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Believe me, I understand the pain. Unfortunately there's only so much we can do at Adobe as the EULAs provided by the foundries for their respective fonts are very explicit in where you can and can not use them.
For example, packaging an InDeisgn file and sending it off for pre-press with the fonts included in the package is in direct violation of most font EULAs. In a studio environment, you're only allowed to have a font installed on n number of computers and need to have multiple licenses to accomidate >n number of seats. When creating a PDF, fonts explicitly have to be subsetted before embedding into the PDF.
That's just to paint a picture of the fragile state of using fonts in print, usage in digital mediums is just another bee in your bonnet when it comes to considering when you can and cannot use a font.
Services like Typekit Desktop are trying to make this easier by removing a lot of those pain and condierations for you, by blanketing all these fonts under a single license you're free to use for print and the web. There's still some gotchyas, but we're aiming to greatly reduce how much you have to think about it where we can.
So yes there's a bit of education when it comes to mixing embedded HTML content/fonts with DPS, but at least there's options
Sarah

What does "domain name is used for your typekit fonts & SEO sitemap.xml" mean?

Why is Muse now asking, on either uploading files via Muse or externally through another ftp, for a domain name that is used for your typekit fonts & SEO sitemap.xml?
I used Muse for exporting my files to ftp externally a few months back and I could add whatever I liked into the domain name field (which made sense as I could choose an appropriate name). I upgraded Muse this morning and now no domain name I add in here is accepted and on hovering over the info icon I get a "domain name is used for your typekit fonts & SEO sitemap.xml. What does that mean exactly?
If anyone can help?

Hi Guys
Great thread Omniscient! Like Bian, my username is just my name. It's a unisex name and caused a nice little debate in the early days of this forum as to whether I was male or female!
Kerry is from the Irish meaning 'dark-haired' but I am a blondie (natural blonde when younger, bottle blonde now I am older!) I think my mum just liked the name...
There are lots of interesting usernames out there - tell us about them and where they come from!
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Installed typekit fonts have vanished.

The other day I took advantage of the new typekit fonts for the desktop. Was very pleasently surprised to see them magically appear in InDesign. Went ahead a used one in a project. After doing some housekeeping with Onyx, they are no longer there.
I am assuming emptying the font cache had something to do with it, but how do I get them back? CC desktop says they are synced, but this does not help.

Marcy,
Post about this in the File and Font Sync Early Access forum here:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/creative_cloud/file_and_font_sync_early_access?view=disc ussions
The Typekit support people have been very helpful on this forum.

Installed typekit fonts disappear in InDesign after restart.

Everytime I restart my mac, which is every day, the installed typekit fonts disappear from the font list. They are still showing up in CC desktop (which was just updated). The only way I've been able to get them back is to remove them and then go get them again. This is very discouraging and I hope the bug gets fixed soon.

Hi lemoos,
I'm sorry that you ran into trouble with this. Would you please send your recent sync log files to [email protected] so that we can look into the problem?
Thank you,
-- liz
On OS X:
* Open the Finder
* under the Go menu, select "Go To Folder"
* in the window that opens, type: /Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync/
Remember to replace "(username)" with your own account name.
(Or if you are comfortable working from the Terminal, cd to $HOME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync/)
On Windows:
C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CoreSync\
Attach the 3 or 4 most recent CoreSync-yyyy-MM-dd.log files to an email. Please don't send a zip file, as they often get flagged as spam.

Are typekit fonts available for print?

Can typekit fonts be packaged up as per fonts on my desktop?

Hello patcsant,
Thanks for your interest in Typekit. The Typekit Services Agreement does not permit Typekit desktop fonts to be transferred to another user or computer that isn’t already licensed for that font. This means that anyone you wish to share the document with (e.g. a colleague or a printer) needs to have their own license for the font, either through Creative Cloud or as a traditional desktop license.
You can read more on packaging fonts here:
http://help.typekit.com/customer/portal/articles/1166052
Synced font data may be embedded in PDF and other digital documents, though. Creating a PDF file is, in most cases, the best and most reliable way to ensure typographic fidelity in documents destined for print output.
I hope that this helps; let me know if you have any other questions. Best,
-- liz

Vidaloka - Typekit font or Google font?

When I started building my website some months ago I selected Vidaloka for headings – I am sure it was in Typekit as otherwise (AIUI) only basic Mac fonts can be used.I wanted to give the site a distinctive look and feel – it is supposed to be a bit like a newspaper.
But now it seems to have disappeared from Typekit.
But it is in Google fonts.
I have seen posts telling me that to use the Google font I have to put various bits of HTML in various places, eg page properties and headers. Don't quite understand this – I come from a newspaper editing background [InDesign is my native app]
My site is londonsriver.com and Vidaloka is used half a dozen times on each of 30 pages.
Do I have to put the HTML code into EVERY HEADING on EVERY PAGE? And then continue doing that with the next 20 pages in the pipeline?
Or is it easier just to find a new Typekit font that looks good and fits?
Any helpful suggestions welcome.
Ken

Believe me, I understand the pain. Unfortunately there's only so much we can do at Adobe as the EULAs provided by the foundries for their respective fonts are very explicit in where you can and can not use them.
For example, packaging an InDeisgn file and sending it off for pre-press with the fonts included in the package is in direct violation of most font EULAs. In a studio environment, you're only allowed to have a font installed on n number of computers and need to have multiple licenses to accomidate >n number of seats. When creating a PDF, fonts explicitly have to be subsetted before embedding into the PDF.
That's just to paint a picture of the fragile state of using fonts in print, usage in digital mediums is just another bee in your bonnet when it comes to considering when you can and cannot use a font.
Services like Typekit Desktop are trying to make this easier by removing a lot of those pain and condierations for you, by blanketing all these fonts under a single license you're free to use for print and the web. There's still some gotchyas, but we're aiming to greatly reduce how much you have to think about it where we can.
So yes there's a bit of education when it comes to mixing embedded HTML content/fonts with DPS, but at least there's options
Sarah

Creative Cloud looses synced Typekit fonts

Hi.
I'm having a lot of trouble with desktop synced Typekit fonts; Creative Cloud constantly looses some of the fonts I have synced. When I'm online, this is not a problem, but offline it is - I cannot sync the fonts again and so every workfile I have with synced fonts is totally un-editable until I'm back online. And this was also fine, but today Creative Cloud lost ALL my synced fonts, and told me that font is already added although Photoshop and all the other programs said it is not available. Same when I tried to add via Typekit; says that font is already added, and only option is to remove font. I could get the font back by first removing and then adding again with Typekit, but is not possible to do this with all fonts; I cannot remember every single font and style I have used by heart, only way knowing what is missing is to go thru all the files where I've used Typekit synced fonts.
Any suggestions how to solve this? This is harming my work a lot since there are several website projects going on that use Typekit fonts. I'm having serious doubts whether the whole Typekit is now unreliable to use on customer websites... The great Adobe support chat, that should be available 24/7, is closed so cannot ask them. I would highly appreciate a quick answer.
Thanks in advance

Moving the discussion to Adobe Type forum.
Thanks,
Atul Saini

Export Typekit font to desktop as font file

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