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Adobe announced today that it has acquired Typekit Inc., provider of ready-to-go Web fonts for designers. It's a natural fit for Adobe, which produces the industry-standard suite of design software and has a long history of producing fonts.

Typekit allows Web developers to load and display a vast range of fonts on the server side, enabling websites to go far beyond the limited range of Web-safe fonts installed on most computers. Its flexibility and easy implementation has transformed the use of type on the Web.

Recently, a consortium of type designers and web designers have gathered around a new font format specification called Web Open Font Format (WOFF). The format would allow more typefaces to appear across the web and to be readable by both humans and search engines.

With support from Mozilla announced with the release of Firefox 3.6, and with the advocacy of leading type foundries such as Linotype, Emigre, and Hoefler & Frere-Jones, the question of web fonts might be satisfactorily resolved in the near future.

We've showed how Gen Y is going to change the web. In doing so, Gen Y is also changing the world. Despite all of this, the world of Generation Y eludes a lot of the previous generations. Generation Y is absorbed in a world made possible through technology. This is a key factor that is left out of the misconceptions made about Gen Y. Here's a glimpse into the world of Gen Y and how they're using technology.