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LesleyGK
LesleyGK
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September 21, 2020
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Farnham Font

  • September 21, 2020
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I hope someone can help. I downloaded Farnham font family from the Adobe library for use in a published book. When the book was collect for press, the font appeared as 'AdobeFnt20.lst' file. Now, a year later I need to reprint the book but the font is missing and no longer available in the Adobe libary. When I click on the 'AdobeFnt20.lst' file it says there is no App to open the file? I assumed when I sent the book to press that this was how fonts supplied by Adobe looked. Now I have a big problem as my main font is missing.

Please help!

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    Correct answer Dov Isaacs

    The Farnham font family was never part of the Adobe Font Library, but it was for some time offered as part of the Adobe Font Service. This font family is from the Font Bureau foundry.

     

    Regrettably, Font Bureau decided to stop licensing use of this font family via the Adobe Fonts service. (This was not Adobe's decison!) If you need continued access to this font, you must license it from Font Bureau via one of its commercial outlets. You might try https://store.typenetwork.com/foundry/fontbureau/fonts/?name=farnham.

     

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    SteFas
    Participant
    September 22, 2020

    Don't participating font foundries have firm contracts with Adobe that prohibits (or makes it costly), for them to simply remove thier fonts from Typekit? Dissappearing fonts are indeed a major issue. I suspect the backstory is long and full of legal marketing finesse, and beyond the scope of this community.

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    Legend
    September 22, 2020

    "Don't participating font foundries have firm contracts with Adobe that prohibits (or makes it costly), for them to simply remove thier fonts from Typekit?" Who'd sign up for that? "We the undersigned allow Adobe to sell, or not sell, our fonts at any price they please, forever, and pay us whatever they please..."

     

    I suspect it just never occurred to the people brokering this fabulous new service that the consequences of a font disappearing are rather more serious than the consequences of (say) a track disappearing from Spotify; that it can generate huge, unbounded, or ruinous, costs for the people who have standardised.

    LesleyGK
    LesleyGKAuthor
    Participant
    September 22, 2020

    I'm a freelance designer and sent a large 400pp hardback cookbook to press a year ago. I have now to make some adjustments for the reprint and don't have the font! I will have to pay the fees for the font myself as the client has already paid for the book design. Feel v dissapointed in Adobe and will think twice about using their fonts for a project like this again.

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
    Legend
    September 21, 2020

    The Farnham font family was never part of the Adobe Font Library, but it was for some time offered as part of the Adobe Font Service. This font family is from the Font Bureau foundry.

     

    Regrettably, Font Bureau decided to stop licensing use of this font family via the Adobe Fonts service. (This was not Adobe's decison!) If you need continued access to this font, you must license it from Font Bureau via one of its commercial outlets. You might try https://store.typenetwork.com/foundry/fontbureau/fonts/?name=farnham.

     

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    LesleyGK
    LesleyGKAuthor
    Participant
    September 21, 2020

    Thank you so much for responding to my post and providing some clarity - much appreciated.

    I am still a little confused. What is the difference between the Adobe font library and the Adobe Font service? I pay a monthly subscription and downloaded the font in good faith from   https://fonts.adobe.com. Is there a way to know which fonts will be there permanently. This is a costly mistake for me and one I don't wish to make again.

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    September 21, 2020

    Any font might come or go, like books in a library or tracks on Spotify.  The PERMANENT way to get Adobe fonts and a selection of other fonts is to purchase a license to Font Folio. That's around $9000. This is why Adobe Fonts subscriptions, for all their limitations, are quite attractive.

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    Legend
    September 21, 2020

    A file called adobefnt20.lst may appear but it isn't a font. It's just a list of the fonts you have. 

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