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Professional Font Management Has Never Been More Crucial

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.

Sign up for a free 15 day trial of Connect Fonts to start preparing today.

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You’re Gonna Have A Big Font Problem

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:

  • Unprompted font substitutions that make text wrap and warp
  • Fonts being inaccessible
  • So many “Missing Fonts” notification someone chucks their laptop into a wall
  • Interns bursting into tears and locking themselves in the restroom, so everyone else has to run down to the coffee shop to use the bathroom
  • Exorbitant replacement costs

You can get the nitty gritty details about the problem here. Now, let’s talk about finding a solution.

Nip It In The Bud

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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The Font Manager For Creative Professionals

Even if there wasn’t an impending fontastrophe, Connect Fonts could still be your team’s saving grace.

  • Built on thirty years of font management experience to meet the unique needs of fast-paced creative agencies
  • Plugins for Adobe Creative Cloud Apps and Sketch
  • Patented FontSense technology ensures the right version of the right font is activated every time
  • Efficient font distribution and sharing for collaboration

Wait, Can’t I Just Convert Them?

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.

What Happens To My Files And Documents When Support For PostScript Ends?

Here is an outline of what happens to your files and documents when support for PostScript ends:

    • Adobe applications will no longer recognize PostScript Fonts.
    • That means you can’t create content using Type 1 fonts after January 2023.
    • More importantly, existing Adobe files utilizing Type 1 fonts created before January 2023 will NOT be editable without replacing the font.
      When you try, you’ll receive the dreaded “missing font” error, annoying “link” or “re-link” alert, agitating warning triangles, or even blue banners of doom—depending on what program you’re using. Ugh.
    • Sure, embedded Type 1 data can be placed for display or printing…but editing will set off alarms that require immediate attention (i.e. interrupt your workflow big time).
    • PDFs with embedded Type 1 fonts will display as expected. Non-embedded fonts will be replaced in two ways: (a.) by a font that ships with Acrobat or is your operating system’s default; or (b.) by Acrobat’s font substitution table and the available fonts on your system.

However, when a viewer other than Acrobat is used in a web browser, “Adobe can’t control what will happen.”

What Is The Likelihood My Font Libraries Contain Type 1 Fonts?

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.

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Spend your 2023 focused on winning awards and wowing clients, not stressing about fonts.

 

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Wow, That’s A Lot To Absorb!

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.

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