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Countdown to January 2021, when all your PostScript Type 1 Fonts will stop working in Adobe Creative Cloud. Use Connect Fonts today to identify and isolate PostScript fonts in your creative projects and legacy assets.
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Fonts are complicated, so we’ll try to keep this short.
Come 2023, all the PostScript Type 1 fonts in your collection are going to cause veritable chaos in Adobe projects and files. We’re talking:
You can get the nitty gritty details about the problem here. Now, let’s talk about finding a solution.
Connect Fonts is a font management tool that gives you greater control and insight over your font collection.
You can identify all the PostScript Type 1 fonts in your collection, which creative assets they’re lurking in, and make a comprehensive plan to replace any and all pesky PostScript fonts in use. If you have a lot of PostScript fonts, replacement efforts can get spendy, so you may want develop a timeline for repurchasing.
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Even if there wasn’t an impending fontastrophe, Connect Fonts could still be your team’s saving grace.
There are rumors buzzing around that you can avoid the problem (PostScript Pickle, Fontageddon, Helvetica On Earth, whatever you want to call it) by just converting the file type of your existing fonts. Sorry, it’s not the shortcut you think it is.
Converting fonts is a gray area and could be a violation of the fonts’ End User License Agreements (EULAs). They also may not behave the same way once you convert them, leading to a whole new host of problems. So you could be right back where you started, plus a call from a type foundry’s lawyer.
Here is an outline of what happens to your files and documents when support for PostScript ends:
However, when a viewer other than Acrobat is used in a web browser, “Adobe can’t control what will happen.”
The likelihood your font collection includes Type 1 fonts is very high. We recently reviewed our customer font database of over 7 million fonts and discovered that 25% are PostScript Type 1. Did you know the average creative’s font library contains roughly 4500 fonts? Trust us, you’ve got more PostScript Type 1 fonts than you think you do.
Who knew fonts could be so dramatic? I mean, we did, of course, because we’ve seen them all, even the gaudiest of Grotesks who are known to throw a drink in the face of a cool, collected Sans.
You can learn more about the PostScript Pickle on our blog, but we have less scary stuff there, too — like fun font management and creative workflow tips.