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If there’s no guarantee that typeface you use today will be there tomorrow, I sure as hell wouldn’t describe the service as “reliable.”Īdobe Fonts is marketed as “quality fonts at your fingertips” and not as a “tryout medium.” If AF can’t negotiate fair deals with foundries to ensure their perpetual availability, then the messaging absolutely needs to reflect that.In this list of 20 free fonts for logo design you’ll find 3D fonts, uppercase, lowercase, angled and many other types of fonts, all of them with some really special details which make them perfect for logo or print design. Services carry the expectation of reliability. Secondly, and more fundamentally, is the unsteady ground upon which Adobe Fonts is built. A joint statement from both Font Bureau and Adobe Fonts would have gone a long way. Not that it should have engaged in finger-pointing/sh*t-flinging, but a more transparent explanation of the foundries’ rationale for pulling their libraries would have prevented a lot of the initial fuss. It sucks, but I get it.įirst, the initial messaging about the dropped libraries was vague and sugar-coated. Not long after my initial post, I learned that the foundries decided to pull their faces from Adobe Fonts for the reasons you outlined here.

Best new adobe font kit fonts license#

On the other hand, and again this is my personal perspective, if I or an organization I represented were to depend that much on said fonts for a longer term, I would pretty much consider the Adobe Fonts service not only as a great, no additional cost tryout medium, but also as a prelude to getting a perpetual license directly from the foundry to avoid unavailability in the future. Notification to affected customers could/should have been better and preferably personalized, but Adobe wasn't trying to hide anything here.įrom a personal point of view, I too would be very disappointed if I chose a one or more fonts or font families from Adobe Fonts for use as standard fonts for my traditional publishing and my web pages and that were later no longer available via that service. (4) Adobe didn't delay notification of the end of availability of the fonts in question. For better or worse, Adobe has no way of forcing a type foundry to indefinitely continue to participate in the Adobe Fonts service. The type foundries in question made their own business decision to no longer offer their fonts via the Adobe Fonts service, presumably believing that they could increase their own revenue by only offering them via direct licensing and with a different business model and licensing terms than was available via the Adobe Fonts service. Within Adobe, there was and still is great angst about this situation. (3) It was not Adobe's decision to no longer offer those fonts. (2) The good news is that these fonts are available from the source font foundries directly and as mentioned in this thread, some discounts are being offered by those font foundries for a limited time, at least for desktop usage. (1) Any “kits” for web page use that are currently active for a particular account using those “retired” fonts will still be available for the accounts that created and still use them. There is no question that the so-called “retirement” of fonts from the Adobe Fonts service is a major inconvenience to our customers who designed content using those fonts.