Organize Fonts

 

This is not helpful and let me try and explain why. 

 

The solution you provided would be OK if the fonts had been decided on for a project and those style guides needed to be shared with a team. Fine for a very specific plan, but not big picture solutions for finding the right font for specific projects from a large font collection.  

 

As a designer, I have many fonts. Not just Adobe fonts, but from many other sources that add up to about 2500 fonts. This is pretty average for designers. I use a font manager program (suitcase) to activate and deactivate fonts. Which helps to NOT slow down software like In-Design, Illustrator, etc. and NOT make the font list two miles long and impossible to be effective in projects when looking for the right font. Yes, creative cloud can activate/deactivate fonts, but now designers have to manage it in two places. Creative cloud fonts and all other fonts in their collection via a font manager. 

 

The other reason why designers and the creative community needs to have a font manager solution is to separate specific fonts by category, style, theme to help narrow the search of the large font collection. This is done by placing fonts in SETS or FOLDERS that have similar attrabutes. What this does is make it more efficient to find specific fonts for projects. Like a SET of a reoccurring project with fonts that you want to open quickly or share with a group. But the big reason why SETS are so important to the design community is that you can put fonts into specific categories that help pinpoint the right font for the right job. SETS like Serif, Script, etc. This allows the designer to take an idea and find the right font based on the style A LOT faster than scrolling down a list of 2500 fonts. Example, client wants a playful, energy driven campaign. With SETS you can place fonts with similar catagories that match and narrow down the search. Also, by being able to see multiple fonts in the same criteria at the same time it makes it more efficient and easier to stay focused. As I understand it, Creative cloud is not able to do this.

 

So if you have any other thoughts on how to solve this based on the above comments for Adobe and other fonts with Creative Clouds abilities please LMK. 

 

Regarding the “Adobe’s Licensing to third parties rules.” Just because it is a rule does not mean it is right for the community it servers. I realize that this statement is out of scope for Customer Support, but deserves to be said and may it find its way to the right department. This postscript issue is understandable on a technical aspect. It needs to be discontinued, but what Adobe needs to understand is how this will (and is) affecting the creative community. Big agencies with big budgets may be able to update all their postscript font replacement needs, but small / freelance designers do not have the same budgets. So for Adobe to provide fonts that are included in the subscription is great, but not playing well with others (like permissions for font managers) is a disservice to the community. Adobe fonts are just like any other Font reseller or foundry (Like MY FONTS or MONOTYPE). The industry standard is to allow FONT MANAGER SOFTWARE to manage all the different styles, weights, etc. with permissions. This allows the user to be able to activated / deactivate fonts, organize large collections of fonts in a variety of criteria, and to view multiple options of fonts in a visual and productive way. Adobe creative cloud does not provide any font management programs. Just a way to turn THEIR fonts on and off. Most creatives have thousands of fonts to be flexible for different projects, styles, and client needs. Which is why FONT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE is so important to the workflow. Adobes permission policies are doing the creative community a great disservice and should be changed to allow font management software to do what it does best. Help the workflow of the creative community and for Adobe to thrive. Thanks for your time on this.