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Introducing Source Han Sans

While on the subject of fonts and TypeKit, today (in partnership with Google) we announced the release of Source Han Sans, a new open source Pan-CJK typeface family that is now available on Typekit for desktop use.


Source Han Sans, available in seven weights, is a typeface family which provides full support for Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese, all in one font. It also includes Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs from our popular Source Sans family. All told, each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family rounds out at just under half a million total glyphs.

Source Sans 2.0 Released

It's been almost two years since we announced Source Sans Pro, our first open source type family. And now the team has announced Source Sans 2.0 with Greek and Cyrillic support.

Creative Cloud Market Launched

Today we announced Creative Cloud Market which is available to all paid Creative Cloud members except for Photography Plan customers (Photoshop Photography Plan and Creative Cloud Photography Plan). Creative Cloud members can download up to 500 unique assets each month including PSD, ABR, TPL, JPEG and PNG files. This powerful new service allows you to seamlessly find templates and objects to build upon, manipulate, and modify to jumpstart your creative process. Evangelist Paul Trani introduces Creative Cloud Market in this video:

Apply For A ConnectED Donation

Adobe has committed over $300 million in software and professional development services to the White House's ConnectED initiative. As part of this $2 billion+ effort from the private sector, Adobe will deliver creative tools and teacher professional development to schools across the United States - all with the goal of helping youth express their creativity and build their skills for future success.Adobe's donation include creative tools, eLearning tools, and an electronic signature tool. In addition, Adobe is providing a range of teacher training resources from the Adobe Education Exchange and Adobe Youth Voices.

You can apply for a ConnectED donation on the Education Exchange ConnectED site.

Create Now 2014 World Tour

The Create Now 2014 World Tour is going on right now, with upcoming events in Milan, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Los Angeles, Sydney, San Francisco, Washington, Seattle, Bangkok, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Auckland. And more venues are being added.

This is your chance to get expert tips from Adobe evangelists, network with creative professionals, and learn new timesaving features that make everyday tasks easier and faster.

Brackets .41 Released

Title says it all, Brackets .41 is now available. The biggest enhancements are replace across multiple files and improvements to JavaScript Code Hinting. Here are the full release notes.

Check Out The New Inspire

Inspire Magazine has undergone a serious overhaul, and the newest edition is absolutley beautiful, in addition to being informative and just fun to read. Read it online, or download it for iPad, Android, or Windows 8.1.

Watch The Creative Cloud Launch Event Video

If you missed the excitement of the live Creative Cloud launch earlier this week, fret not, we've posted the the videos online for your viewing pleasure.

Creative Cloud Tutorials App

As part of yesterday's big Creative Cloud launch, we published hundres of tutorials, articles, and even games, to help you better take advantage of all the goodness your Creative Cloud subscription has to offer. And as it can be a pain to be running an app and trying to watch lessons on the same screen, we also publshed the Creative Cloud Tutorials app (initially for iOS, Android is on the way).

Creative Cloud 2014 Launch Roundup

Today we announced a major update to Creative Cloud, including major updates to 14 desktop products, the launch of Ink and Slide hardware and supporting apps, and much more.

So what has my team been up to the past half year? As part of the launch we released hundreds of pieces of content to help new and existing users get the most of their Creative Cloud subscription. You can see examples of our content here and here.