Problems using Typekit with Photoshop design work
There’s been a lot of discussion recently around progress getting font foundries to adopt a suitable licensing model for web distribution of font files, providing a way to render live text in a range of fonts. I’ve been playing around a little with Typekit with the intention of using this on a site I’m designing at the moment.
The main issue that I’ve hit is that Typekit is geared around web licensing and delivery of font files – so a subscription will give you access to a wide range of fonts that can then be downloaded from your site and used to render text. However the earlier stage in the workflow is working on page designs in Photoshop, and a Typekit subscription won’t give you any access or rights around downloading a font definition file to use for design work.
This means that theoretically I have much more freedom around typography, but only when I come to the build stage of the site. I wouldn’t necessarily mind paying for a font separately from the Typekit subscription, but I can’t actually find the same font I would like to use on the foundry site (admittedly this may just be my own stupidity).
I think this is just a teething issue with a new service – it’s being discussed on the support forum…