How to use 3rd party fonts uploaded to Adobe Fonts?

Once a font is uploaded to Creative Cloud, whether through the Uploaded Fonts section in the Creative Cloud desktop app or through Custom Fonts in the Admin Console on an Enterprise plan, it becomes available the same way any Adobe Fonts library font does. You do not need to import or link the font file manually inside each app.

Open the Creative Cloud desktop app and click the Fonts icon in the upper right corner. Select Uploaded fonts in the sidebar, and you should see the fonts you added there, each with a checkbox to confirm you hold the rights to use them. Once that font shows as active in that panel, it becomes available inside InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and other Creative Cloud apps through the regular font menu, the same way any activated Adobe Fonts library font would appear, without needing to install anything separately per app.

One detail worth knowing given the fonts were purchased and licensed elsewhere: Adobe runs an automatic validation check on uploaded fonts. If a font is already installed locally, already exists in the standard Adobe Fonts library, or fails Adobe's licensing validation test, the upload will be rejected or blocked, so if a font does not show up as expected, that is the first thing worth checking rather than assuming something went wrong on the Adobe apps side.

If your organization is on a Teams plan rather than Enterprise, only individual users can upload their own fonts this way through Uploaded Fonts, and there is no admin level distribution. If you are on Enterprise and it was your admin who uploaded these through the Custom Fonts product in the Admin Console rather than you uploading them yourself, then as an end user you will not see an Upload option at all. Instead the fonts your admin shared with your product profile should simply appear automatically in your Creative Cloud desktop app's font list once the admin has granted your group access, and from there they behave exactly like any other activated font inside your Adobe apps.

If the font files were uploaded successfully they should appear in the font menu of Adobe apps. The font menus have various filters. The cloud icon with a check in it is a filter button to show only fonts added from Adobe Fonts. The clock icon will show recently added fonts from Adobe Fonts.