Where They Started
One of the secrets to Agence Surf’s creative genius has been reliable font management. Indeed, Agence Surf has used Extensis’s font manager Universal Type Server to provide their team members with the exact right fonts for every project since 2008. But when work-from-home requirements went into effect at the start of the pandemic in 2020, many of their projects faced several disruptions.
Suddenly Agence Surf realized that managing updates to UTS on their server hardware was upending their productivity. Since Agence Surf needed continuous access to their fonts in UTS, that meant they needed to stay on their VPN all the time. And working in memory-intensive design apps through their VPN led to a much slower workflow. Agence Surf knew this situation was unsustainable, but fortunately they didn’t have to look far for a solution. They found it in Connect Fonts, a cloud-based font manager for teams of all sizes.
