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Their linked blog mentions a partnership with Google regarding some of the fonts offered.

http://blog.typekit.com/2012/09/24/introducing-adobe-edge-we...

With that said and paranoia of external asset serving/hosting, does anyone know if these fonts can be self-hosted?

Also, there is an extra DNS round trip by using an external web service. And I hate seeing JavaScript crawl into my <head> tag - certainly not for a web font.

I hope so! More competition means more awesome free fonts for me. I hope they compete bad. Some web fonts render terribly across platforms. Windows still has terrible awful horrible handling of fonts so anything these companies can do to improve that in web fonts would be much appreciated.

I was wondering the same thing - Is there an advantage to using Adobe's web fonts over Google's fonts?

On my dev machine, Google's has an annoying flash / latency issue. Adobe's is smooth.