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December 7, 2021
Question

Type 1 fonts future problems

  • December 7, 2021
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Goodmorning fellow designers, ive been on the phone with adobe and on the chat because Type 1 fonts will not be supported anymore starting 2023, which will mean if you're using adobe font folio fonts like gill sans, frutiger or helvetica none of these fonts will be supported anymore. Which means that if you're a designer of packinging, magazines, newspapers or inlays for medicine, you will have to search for an alternative yourself and the spacing of the fonts will be completely different. I guess that the persons who decided to stop using these fonts haven't thought about the consequences for designers globally. 

 

The answer yesterday was, if you use it in pdf of eps you can use the fonts, apparently the support don't use Indesign of Illustrator because we don't put the fonts in contours 😞

If you have a solutions I would like to hear from you. 

 

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Legend
December 7, 2021

The solution is to migrate to OTF fonts. More recent Font Folios use only OTF fonts. I don't know if there is an upgrade pricing for Font Folio. Photoshop has already dropped type 1 support.

Michael Bere
Participant
January 13, 2022

So there are 3 font formats that I know of currently that I have stored on our database (for print): 

  1. Postscript Type 1
  2. OpenType Postscript*
  3. TrueType Postscript*
    (this is how the formats are named in FontBook): question is, is it only the Type 1 that is discontinued, or is it Postscript generally? If so.... oh my.

 

Do you have any clarity on this?