Adobe Typekit: Building a font serving platform for the Creative Cloud
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When faced with increasing integration costs and an aging API surface, the Adobe Typekit team took a fresh perspective to reinvent the popular service as a developer-friendly, hyper-performant platform capable of delivering fonts across all Adobe creative tools to millions of customers. This talk reveals the concrete steps behind the transformation and highlights the pitfalls the team encountered along the way, giving you the insights needed to design beautiful APIs appreciated by developers and users alike.
Jakub Plichta
Lead Engineer
Adobe Typekit
A Prague native, Jakub lives with his family in San Francisco. His work on Adobe Typekit is driven by the passion for open ecosystems and appreciation for typography. He has spearheaded the integration of Typekit into a wide array of Adobe applications, and dreams of a future where beautiful fonts are readily accessible on every screen. He loves to contemplate the design of RESTful APIs while riding a motorbike or fly fishing in the mountains.