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typekit2

typekit2 is a modern Python client and Fire CLI for the Adobe Fonts API formerly known as the Typekit API.

It replaces the abandoned typekit package’s Python 2 code and setup.py packaging with Python 3.10+, pyproject.toml, HTTPS header authentication, .env support, offline tests, and Git-tag-derived versions.

Install

uv add typekit2

For local development:

uv sync

Create .env from the supplied example, or export the key directly:

cp .env.example .env
export TYPEKIT_API_KEY='your-token'

python-dotenv loads .env without overriding an existing environment variable. Never commit .env; it is ignored.

Python API

from typekit2 import Typekit

client = Typekit()  # reads TYPEKIT_API_KEY

kits = client.list_kits()
family = client.get_font_family("pcpv")
variations = client.get_font_variations("pcpv")
library = client.get_library("full", page=1, per_page=50)

An explicit key is also supported:

client = Typekit(api_key="...")

The compatibility keyword api_token= is accepted, but new code should use api_key= or TYPEKIT_API_KEY.

Kit workflow

created = client.create_kit(
    "Example",
    ["example.com", "www.example.com"],
    [{"id": "pcpv", "subset": "all", "variations": ["n4", "i4"]}],
)
kit_id = created["kit"]["id"]

client.update_kit(kit_id, name="Example renamed")
client.add_font(kit_id, "gkmg", variations=["n4", "n7"])
client.publish_kit(kit_id)

Publishing is asynchronous. Adobe documents that CDN propagation may take several minutes.

CLI

The installed typekit2 command and python -m typekit2 expose the same Fire CLI. Results are stable JSON.

typekit2 doctor
typekit2 kits
typekit2 kit abc123
typekit2 kit abc123 --published=true
typekit2 family pcpv
typekit2 variations pcpv
typekit2 libraries
typekit2 library full --page=1 --per-page=50

Mutating commands are explicit:

typekit2 create-kit Example --domains=example.com,www.example.com
typekit2 add-font abc123 pcpv --variations=n4,i4 --subset=all
typekit2 update-kit abc123 --name='Renamed kit'
typekit2 publish-kit abc123
typekit2 remove-font abc123 pcpv
typekit2 remove-kit abc123

For --families, pass a JSON list:

typekit2 create-kit Example \
  --domains=example.com \
  --families='[{"id":"pcpv","subset":"all","variations":["n4","i4"]}]'

Run typekit2 --help or python -m typekit2 --help for generated Fire help.

API behavior

• Requests use https://typekit.com/api/v1/json.
• Authentication uses the documented X-Typekit-Token header; keys never enter URLs or CLI output.
• Kit writes use URL-encoded Rails-style nested parameters.
• A 30-second timeout is applied by default and can be changed with Typekit(timeout=...).
• HTTP, JSON, and documented API errors raise TypekitAPIError.
• update_kit sends only supplied fields; omitted fields are not replaced accidentally.

See docs/API.md for the method-to-endpoint map and links to Adobe’s authoritative documentation.

Development

./test.sh

The suite is offline: it uses request doubles and never creates, publishes, or deletes a real kit.

Releases

Versions come from Git tags through hatch-vcs; generated typekit2/__version__.py is explicitly ignored. To validate, commit/tag/push the next semantic version, build fresh distributions, and publish with uv:

./publish.sh

Set PUBLISH_SKIP_UPLOAD=1 to exercise the Git release and artifact verification flow without uploading to PyPI. UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN supplies a PyPI token when Trusted Publishing is unavailable.

License and provenance

MIT. The project began as typekit-python by Suchan Lee; typekit2 is its Python 3 modernization.