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jm46235390
jm46235390
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June 17, 2023
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What is the nearest Adobe font to Cinzel Decorative?

  • June 17, 2023
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I'd like a font for a fantasy book cover and would use Cinzel Decorative if I wasn't nervous about OFL licenses. The long tails to the letters perfectly signal the genre I'm dealing with.

 

I can't find anything like it in Adobe Fonts. Are there really no fonts with capitals with these decorative tails?

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    Imaginerie
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    ImaginerieCommunity Expert
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    June 21, 2023

    Following @Tarun Saini answer, here is what Adobe Fonts visual search tells me.

    Trajan seems a very good contender

     

     

      jm46235390
      jm46235390Author
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      June 29, 2023

      Many thanks - that search facility is very useful to know about. I think that what it establishes in this case is that, while Trajan is a good equivalent to Cinzel, Adobe has nothing like Cinzel Decorative, which would be a good gap for Adobe to fill!

      Imaginerie
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      ImaginerieCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 29, 2023

      I think Adobe acts as a distributor in most cases (there are SOME fonts that have been created by Adobe's own foundry but they are not the majority). Instead, independent foundries provide their fonts to be added to the pool of fonts to be synced. There are foundries that notoriously don't want all or some of their fonts to be included: try to find Helvetica, and you wont't 🙂

       

      So it's up to the foundry that created Cinzel, to ask to be included in the system. They may not want, for all sorts of reasons. Nothing can stop you to write and ask them to consider it. (or any foundry that may have an equivalent).

       

      That's the reason why I still purchase fonts from time to time, despite having thousands at my disposal on Adobe fonts. I think both ways are valid, there is something for everyone! 🙂

      PS: Cinzel is free on Google fonts, so this is even less of an issue. You can still upload it on your CC so it can be used in say - Adobe Express - like a font from Adobe font. Win-Win!
      https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cinzel

      Tarun Saini
      Community Manager
      Tarun SainiCommunity Manager
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      June 19, 2023

      Hi @jm46235390,

       

      Thanks for reaching out. Here is something you can try, as Adobe Fonts helps you find fonts matching the text used in images. You can select a font displayed in the search results to activate it immediately.

       

      Please check this article and see if that helps: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/visual-search-adobe-fonts.html

       

      Let us know how it goes.

       

      Regards,

      Tarun

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