Google Docs puts design font and center

Google added a whopping collection of 450 fonts to its online document service Google Docs today — thus freeing your text from years of enslavement by the likes of Arial, Courier New, and the universally reviled Comic Sans.

Well, you …

The best web and mobile typefaces of 2011 are…

In our yearly roundups of what was awesome and what sucked about 2011, we cannot overlook one of our favorite verticals for nerding out: typography.

The past year has brought quite a few interesting developments in web and mobile typography. …

Adobe acquires cloud font site Typekit as part of larger creative cloud service offering

Adobe announced today that it has acquired cloud font site Typekit. Adobe made the announcement just now at its Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles.

Jeffrey Veen (pictured left), chief executive of Typekit, and Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch …