Fonts from the foundry Newlyn will be replaced on June 6th,2022

Thankfully the foundry was able to supply us with the old version of an affected font for our organisation to use in a publication that is about to go to print. We pointed out to Newlyn that Adobe were stating the font would be unchanged. Newlyn said that this was incorrect: that they are constantly 'making improvements and technical adjustments' to their fonts. In our case the newly-named version caused a fully typeset 240pp book to reflow differently due to differences in tracking and kerning, and it would have been impractical for us to go through the entire project to adjust it. But this has certainly highlighted a big flaw in using cloud-based fonts that we're unable to archive for future use... as a publisher, what happens when we want to reprint a book in 5 years time? The whole functionality of InDesign packaging a project for ease of future use is rendered useless by us being unable to archive a copy of the font with that package, as demonstrated by the debacle of this update. The result for us is that we simply cannot risk using cloud-based fonts in any of our future projects unless it becomes possible for us to effectively archive the font with the rest of the project package. Will that be possible?

I literally have hundreds of presentations with several of these fonts, and I manage thousands of assets for my department with the same fonts. Are you telling me that I now need to go through each and every presentation individually and manually replace all the versions that I use of this family? This seems a very user-unfriendly process. There surely must be a more convenient way to go about doing this.

Hi there, I have set a 224pp book in 'Rubik New' and am sending it to print next week. When I replaced the font with 'New Rubik' this morning it has completely changed my set text. It said that it was only a name change, but I think it's changed tracking or something as I now have new line breaks along with widows and orphans where previously I had none. Can you please tell me if you've had similar issues with this font change and, if so, how I can solve it? I don't have time to reset the entire publication and put everything back to where it was pre font change. Thank you for your help 🙂 

Hello!
I've been using New Kansas on a branding project, and am unable to locate it right now so that I can get the code for using it as web font. It wasn't one whose name changed, but the Newlyn foundry is currently only showing New Herman, New Order, and New Spirit. Does this have something to do with this name change?

Thanks,

kate

Hi I am about to release guidelines on a new brand we are working on and I would like to avoid releasing with a aname of font that is going to change. Can we get the new name of the font to include in the guidelines?
This will cause a lot of uneccessary work to change and update globally but if I can at least reference the change and new name in the guidelines then we can mitigate any issues at time of guideline release.

Kind regards
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So this might be a stupid question, but by the time I run across a previous project that will flag these fonts as missing, I might not remember this announcement. So will the new names be similar enough to the old names? That is --- these names are changing *from* what *to* what?