Support for authoring with PostScript Type 1 fonts to end by January 2023

@stiano,

You posted this to the Adobe Fonts community and as such, I will assume that your concern is about Type 1 fonts available via the Adobe Fonts service.

The fact is that the Adobe Fonts service never offered any Type 1 fonts at all. Most of the fonts offered by Adobe Fonts are OpenType CFF fonts with the remainder being OpenType TTF fonts. Thus, fonts that you have been using via Adobe Fonts, this announcement has no impact whatsoever on you.

If your concern is about Type 1 fonts previously and separately marketed by Adobe prior to the early 2000's (i.e., over 15 years ago), all the Type 1 fonts that were classified as Adobe Originals (i.e., commissioned by Adobe and created by Adobe staff and direct contractors for Adobe) are available in OpenType CFF format via Adobe Fonts. Other Type 1 fonts that were marketed by Adobe from third parties (such as Linotype, Monotype, ITC, etc.) are available in OpenType CFF format via the Adobe Font Folio 11.1 product (not part of the Adobe Fonts service) or directly from the foundry that originally created the font (you can try fontspring.com, myfonts.com, etc.).

The easy part is finding other “Bodoni” fonts or at least fonts that have the word “Bodoni” as part of the font name! 😉 A Google search can find those. A “genuine” Bauer Bodoni can be found at https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/bauer-bodoni/ for example. In fact, that particular font should much totally match what you currently have in Type 1 format (if you originally licensed the Type 1 font from Adobe or Linotype) but now in OpenType CFF format.

You mention ligatures. Be aware that for OpenType treats ligatures very differently. The particular ligature you specified, ‘fi’, is in that font but in programs such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, it is accessed either by enabling automatic OpenType ligatures (the preferred method) or by accessing the glyph explicitly and manually via the Glyphs Panel of those applications (the hard way).

Although there was a Type 1 version of Symbol, Adobe never provided a Type 1 version of Times New Roman.

However, both Windows and MacOS have a TrueType version of Symbol and an OpenType TTF version of all members of the Times New Roman family.

For these fonts, you should be “good to go” …  😉

I have written the following to document my reaction to this announcement:

Greetings Harshika - I'm writing out of concern for the newly announced policy regarding support for Type1 fonts. Designers like me, with decades of experience and an appreciation for typography, have gone to lengths to build font collections that are curated and reflect our personal design philosophies and aesthetic. Many of these aren't Adobe-owned fonts, and many are indeed Type 1 formats. Your rationale for the change is frankly nonsensical. Type 1 formats are perfectly suited to print applications now, and into the distant future, and only become obsolete if Adobe forces them to become so. I will state this clearly - many designers consider themselves to be print designers. PRINT IS NOT DEAD. Adobe's move away from Type 1 fonts will move the design industry towards the middle eliminating a key tool that designers today can leverage to create distinct work. In the middle, design becomes less valuable to business, and the industry at large, as it starts looking more and more alike. Please reconsider this illogical, and insensitive assault on the design industry.