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May 14, 2023
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Fonts List from Deactivated Account

  • May 14, 2023
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Desperation play here, but this sucks enough to try.

(TL;DR With my college-run account, I want to see a list of all of the fonts, active and previously active fonts on the account, however, all accounts limited to paid accounts are completely hidden, as opposed to showing up on the previously activated list. Is there away to see this list? If my account still works on campus, would driving out there allow me to get the list or is it still hidden even if the fonts work when I'm there? [It's Adobe, I have to ask.])

 

I'm a student and through my school, each student has their own Adobe CC account which allow us access to CC remotely, as well as at school. After classes end, we lose access to everything unavailable without a paid account. My problem lies in the gray area between paid and free accounts with Adobe Fonts.

 

One thing lost is access to most Adobe Fonts. I expected these "premium" fonts to be deactivated, but with the existence of the deactivated fonts list, I was expecting to at least be able to see a list of these fonts there, just so we know what we used to have. But this, unfortunately and frustratingly, is not the case. With wrapping up the end of the semester (i.e. insanely) and the student account transfer a) not transferring the fonts list and b) requiring making a new account while I already have a personal one I've used in the past (i.e. it's worthless), I didn't have time to go through the list and manually activate over 250 font families on my personal account (and since I saw it in other community posts, you can just bulk deactivate them. I want them on my personal account).

 

Is there any way to see this list of hidden fonts? Do deactivated accounts still work on-site/campus, and if so, would this list still be hidden even if the fonts are usable? (Dumb question, but it's Adobe, so it's not unlikely.)

 

Thanks, everyone!

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    Imaginerie
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    May 15, 2023

    The general way to do that would be to head over the CC app "manage fonts" panel and see all your activated fonts there

     

    HOWEVER, having a school account, some features may have been blocked by the administrator. You need to ask to the IT department to release such features if they agree to do so.

     

    this is tytpically where they have to go

    https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/business/teams/for-admins.html

     

    Most IT admins decide to lock certain functions, particularly when it come to school accounts.

     

    kayriAuthor
    Participant
    May 21, 2023

    Would the font list--active, dectivated, whatever else--in Adobe CC be different than the Adobe Fonts website? Because that should not be the case for obvious reasons.

     

    I reached out to the IT department and they said they couldn't help. So they probably just didn't feel like it given your provided resources.

     

    A teacher requested that I have access to my account over the summer to work on a project, so I ended up being able to skirt the problem. I'll make sure to save the list this time. 👍

     

    Thank you for your help! I appreciate your time and effort for responding.

    Imaginerie
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 22, 2023

    It should give you the same list, however, I believe some options may be missing from the website.
    If that helps (And it probably won't)
    Students have a highly discounted price for the full CC
    https://www.adobe.com/uk/creativecloud/buy/students.html
    (change countries if advisable)
    and know that even the cheapest subscription (£9.90 currently for the Photography plan) gives you access to the full font list of Adobe fonts.


    That said, some fonts available on Adobe fonts may come from foundries that allow to "test" their fonts, while some are completely free to use anyway (like Google fonts for example), websites like typewold.com and whatfontis.com give you free/low costs fonts alternatives for popular typefaces.

    If you have set your mind on some specific typefaces, it's worth planning in advance.