Learn how to create, organize, share, and activate fonts and libraries to streamline your design process and enhance workflow efficiency.
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Efficient, accurate, intelligent font, creative asset, and creative risk management for mail, display, large format graphics, promotional products, apparel, and packaging.
Learn how to create, organize, share, and activate fonts and libraries to streamline your design process and enhance workflow efficiency.
Learn how to ensure your font selection doesn’t limit your creative expression so you can always find the perfect font for that unique design requirement.
Whether they’re scrunched up at the same desk or nations apart, here’s how to manage users and securely share fonts and libraries for effective collaboration.
This one’s all about staying in charge of your users and their permissions so you can secure those precious font libraries.
Learn how to manage and report on font licenses for security, compliance, and risk mitigation from napkin sketch to quality control.
Here’s how to remedy errors and inconsistencies to ensure accurate font usage across printed materials, no matter where they live in your workflow.
Track font licenses, metadata, seats, and purchase orders to prevent duplicative purchases and maintain compliance.
Reduce purchasing and operational costs for fonts by tracking usage detail (who is using what font where, when, and how often) to gain actionable insight on ROI and prevent over purchasing.
Deliver a secure, scalable, flexible workflow environment that supports both growing client rosters and concurrent users.
Centralized control of fonts and local teams from one location to maintain accuracy and increase efficiency and productivity.
Ensure font license compliance and accurate font usage to reduce the risk of costly reworks, missed deadlines, unhappy clients, and legal or regulatory noncompliance.
Accelerate the collaboration, design, editing, and project auditing lifecycle so hours stay devoted to profitable activities.
Eliminate duplicative fonts, prevent unnecessary font repurchasing, and gain actionable insight on font ROI to better manage operating budget.
Deliver compliant creative work – and more value – to stakeholders on time, and on budget.
Gain access to the only Creative Intelligence Suite designed to enhance collaboration, increase efficiency, and provide creative risk management for teams, projects, and operations.
Auto-activation powered by Font Sense℠ technology activates precise versions of fonts more accurately than any other font manager.
Search and find fonts by mood or vibe rather than just style tags, automatically receive font pairing recommendations, and manage Adobe Fonts, Google Fonts, and fonts from foundries large and small.
Report on font and designer usage to make better procurement decisions and ensure you’re meeting licensing terms.
Manage and report on usage across font licenses, and alert teams to licenses that are expired or expiring soon.
Drag and drop Adobe project files at any point in your workflow to inspect them for font usage and font license risks in seconds.
Generate and share Font Risk Assessment Reports that include step-by-step instructions to resolve any identified font problems.
Allow users to seamlessly edit project files, track changes to fonts, revert to previous versions, and save changes across all users, resulting in a single source of truth for each file.
Admins can delegate authority to create or manage font libraries, create teams, and add or remove users from any team.
Extensis manages millions of fonts and creative assets for over 5,000 global agencies, brands, and marketing teams of all sizes.
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Implementation, 0-45 days
+ Planning Sessions
+ Establish Goals
+ Data And User Configuration
+ Onboarding/Launch
+ Review Adoption & Utilization
Utilization Review, 60-90 days
+ Define, share, and review success metrics
+ Share and review utilization results
+ Provide recommendations as needed
Success Review, 180 days
+ Score usage compared to kickoff goals
+ Review risk mitigation
+ Assess areas of improvement
Executive Business Review, 270 days
+ Review goals and milestones
+ High-level utilization data review
+ Provide recommendations as needed
Continuous Improvement, 270-300 days
+ Understand user needs and business problems for forthcoming year
+ Review recommendations from Executive Business Review
Connect supports auto-activation for Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InCopy, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Photoshop, for Adobe Creative Cloud 2021 and later. Connect also provides font panels you can use directly within Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.
The Extensis Connect desktop application requires one of the following operating systems: Windows 11, Windows 10+, macOS™ 13.x, macOS™ 12.x, macOS™ 11.x, and devices with Apple M1 hardware. Connect is supported by the following web browsers: Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge.
Connect helps you bundle licensing information with your fonts, and you can also tag creative assets with licensing information. With Connect + Insight, you can also run font Font Risk Assessment Reports to identify problems in advance.
We continually release updates to Connect to ensure compatibility with Adobe updates. We’re an Adobe Silver Partner, and because we know how much our customers’ workflows rely on Adobe applications, we’re always actively maintaining and improving how you can manage Adobe Fonts and how to optimize your production process.
It’ all starts with the EULA.
Each font has an End User License Agreement (EULA), similar to when you install any other type of software. And just like many Terms & Conditions, human nature tends to skim that snooze-able text and just click “Agree.”
Here’s the issue. Not all EULAs are the same. Permissions can differ wildly. And designers are often so happy just to “have” a new font that they never think about that EULA again, and then use the font in countless unique projects.
For stock images, illustrations, and templates, licenses often restrict commercial use, so it’s important to carefully read the licensing permissions.
Right font, wrong license.
These are the two most common ways that fonts are used without the appropriate licensing: 1. When the font is purchased, the buyer or first user does not comprehend and/or follow the EULA. 2. When a font is chosen from a pre-existing library, the user assumes that the font can be used however they want. They assume that since they “own” the font, they can do as they please with the font.
Increased scale, increased risk
Larger creative teams (both agency-side and in-house) tend to be more challenged with font compliance. That’s because these environments have tight deadlines, endless projects, and higher headcounts. Team members are constantly accessing fonts by quickly dipping into a shared current collection of rapidly purchased fonts. The sheer volume of fonts in use makes it more likely for a font to be used without appropriate licensing.
Mistakes count even if no one sees them. But, for top-level media professionals, those final deliverables are often high-profile once live and published. Type foundries are more likely to recognize a font out in the wild, and check licensing status.
Another issue of scale is that of web traffic. Certain fonts require different licensing for webpages that have higher traffic. If a font was licensed for use on a small, local business website, but is then repurposed by the agency for a big brand’s digital campaign, the disparity in traffic will cause that font use to be noncompliant.
A place for everything.
If your font collection looks like a digital junk drawer, noncompliance is practically inevitable. By keeping fonts and their licensing information together, you will improve your team’s ability to choose appropriate fonts and reference EULAs as needed.
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