What is the nearest Adobe font to Cinzel Decorative?

[jm46235390]

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?

[Tarun Saini]

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

[Imaginerie]

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

Trajan seems a very good contender

[jm46235390]

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]

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

[Imaginerie]

See those screenshots to upload installed fonts on your CC:

First, click on "manage Fonts on your CC app:

then choose uploaded fonts:

[jm46235390]

Thanks, Imaginerie - I'm a bit uncomfortable with Google fonts because they say: "These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License. You can use them in your products & projects – print or digital, commercial or otherwise. This isn't legal advice, please consider consulting a lawyer and see the full license for all details."

I can't afford to consult a lawyer but I've read the OFL license and it's aimed at font designers, not end users, and didn't give me confidence that I could use it (YMMV).

Good idea about getting the Cinzel foundry to ask to be uploaded to Google fonts, though...