Current version:

  • Connect Fonts desktop for Macintosh: 25.1.0

  • Connect Fonts desktop for Windows: 25.1.0

System Requirements are here.

The Connect Fonts desktop application replaces Suitcase Fusion. Connect Fonts adds web-based font activation and includes some web-only features.

Version 25.1.0

What's New?

  • Bug fix: Deleted fonts are not reflected for some user accounts in the desktop client.
  • Improvement: Adding Fonts Temporarily feature has been restored.
  • Other minor compatibility enhancements and bug fixes.

Version 25.0.2

  • Local Libraries are deprecated and converted to Personal Libraries. Personal Libraries can be managed through a new global permission setting.
    Visit the Extensis support page for more details. Other compatibility enhancements and bug fixes.

Version 25.0.1

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes.

Version 25.0.0

  • Auto-activation plug-ins for Adobe Creative Cloud 2024 releases of After Effects, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, and Photoshop. Bug fixes.

Version 24.1.1

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.1.0

  • Includes new font activation plugin for Adobe Photoshop. Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes.

Version 24.0.9

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.8

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.7

  • Ability to view Adobe Fonts added for Creative Cloud applications. Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes.

Version 24.0.6

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.5

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.4

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.3

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.2

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.1

  • Compatibility enhancements and bug fixes

Version 24.0.0

  • Auto-activation plug-ins for Adobe Creative Cloud 2023 releases of After Effects, Illustrator, InCopy, InDesign, and Photoshop.

  • Bug fixes

Version 23.0.4

Bug fixes

  • Prematurely logged out of Connect Fonts

    With user help, we have identified additional conditions where a user can be logged out.

    If you experience something like this, we’d like to hear about it. Please use the Feedback link in the Connect Fonts Web app, or report your issue using this form: https://help.extensis.com/hc/en-us/requests/new/.

  • (Mac) Added options for creating or selecting a vault when logging in as a different user

    When you attempt to log in to the Connect Fonts desktop app as a different user, you’re told you need to create a new vault or select an existing one for the user logging in.

    We have added buttons to facilitate this directly from the message.

Version 23.0.3

Bug fixes

  • Logged out of Connect Fonts shortly after login

    We have addressed several issues that could cause a user to be logged out almost immediately after logging in. We thank the users who have experienced this behavior for their feedback and especially their patience.

    We believe we have covered every case where this could be happening but if you see this behavior, even if greatly reduced from the past, we’d like to hear about it. Please use the Feedback link in the Connect Fonts Web app, or report your issue using this form: https://help.extensis.com/hc/en-us/requests/new/.

Version 23.0.2

Bug fixes

  • We addressed an issue where many users were being asked to log in every time they started the Connect Fonts desktop app. [TS-3286]

Version 23.0.1

  • Bug fixes.

Version 23.0.0

  • We added two toolbar buttons to easily switch between the desktop application and the Connect Fonts Web application.

    will open your browser and log you in to Connect Fonts.

    will open the browser, log you in, and display information about new web-only features.

Known issues

  • On macOS 12, some fonts managed by Connect Fonts are not displayed correctly in the Apple applications Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. The font menu in the Format Inspector shows question marks for font names, and the document itself displays text with overlapping characters.

    There are still unknowns about whether this happens only in macOS 12 that has been upgraded from macOS 11, and whether it only happens with PostScript fonts. If you are experiencing a problem like this, please submit a support request indicating that you are experiencing an issue with fonts in an Apple application on macOS 12.

  • The Extensis Font Panel in Adobe Photoshop does not run natively on Apple silicon systems. If you need the Font Panel in Photoshop on a Mac with Apple silicon, you can run Photoshop using Rosetta. See this article for information.