FWIW - 'Kermit' is now an option in desktop MS Word. Click on the font drop-down box and it's listed alphabetically. I assume it's in the web app too but haven't checked.
Interestingly, it was listed in the font drop-down but there was an icon next to it to "download this font". That was quick and painless and the resulting text looks like the one shown in the article.
So it might not be free, but if you've got MS Word you can at least download and try it out.
I don’t think it’s anything we get to use. All it says is if you are interested in the font, you can contact the company that made it. It’s weird. Sometimes these announcements are more like, “We commissioned this cool thing and made it free,” like when Microsoft came out with their latest emojis.
There us no mentioned license, neither on the original post or the website. It is only mentioned that it will be added to M$ office indicating (to me) that it will be proprietary/part of the product.
They're using it on the page, which presumably means that your browser already downloaded it! You can probably dig around the page source/network tab to find it.
I did a super-brief search on the page but "download" didn't turn up any results. Does anyone else know where we can download this from?