: Am I allowed to embed Typekit fonts directly into a website and host them myself? With Adobe CC I've gained access to Typekit. I've started playing around with it and noticed they put a cap

@Nimeshi706

I did some more research on licensing and came across the following:


Can I use Typekit web fonts for anything other than a website?

No. Our web font license requires that the fonts be added to a website
with the Typekit embed code. If the website or web app is viewed in
the browser (either on the desktop or on a mobile device), it's
covered by the web fonts license.

You can’t use web fonts to generate images for offline use. You may,
however, use fonts synced from Typekit to create web mockups and
generate images for use on your website.


Source

So I suppose this answers my question -- you cannot manually embed fonts onto your site, you must use their embed code.

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@Caterina889

My understanding is No.

The page view cap is there to gain further money for Adobe if you need more page views. It has absolutely nothing to do with bandwidth or foundry licensing. Adobe has plenty of servers and bandwidth to serve everything and they are the foundry.

Adobe would see embedding a Typekit font, with anything other than their own embed code, as piracy and circumventing their licensing fees.

This is one reason I refuse to use Typekit and actually purchase my fonts with the licenses I need. That, and the fact that if the subscription were to lapse, all the web sites you build with Typekit fonts will stop using those fonts.

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