Berkeley Old Style font - Is it still around

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January 20, 2023
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I've used a font called "Berkeley Old Style" for a layout in Adobe InDesign in 2019. I jsut tried to locate it in Adobe Fonts and the message says it can't find it. Does anyone know what happened to that font in Adobe. Or is there an alternative font I can use?

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heydon46

Participant

I used to use ITC Berkeley Old Style a lot in the 1980s at a type/graphic design studio. For me, it displayed class and respect.

Clever_moment5C27

Participant

It was a Type 1 font which are no longer supported

tonks_the_auror

Community Expert

It's true that Type 1 fonts are no longer supported. OTF versions of ITC Berkeley Oldstyle are available from several sources as Steve \ and other folks here have said.

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heydon46

Participant

Okay, I'll check it out. The last time I was in the business and used ITC
Berkeley OS was 35 years ago. As I recall, the face was commissioned by UC
Berkeley around 1910 to be used for its forms.

rob day

Community Expert

I think it started as a Bitstream font in the early 90s:

The ITC OpenType version can be purchased here:

https://www.fonts.com/font/itc/itc-berkeley-old-style

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Adobe definitely had it as well from the beginning. "Standard" OpenType versions were also available in Adobe OT Font Folio. That being said @rodd4988956, it's worth picking up the revised Pro versions available at Fonts.com as mentioned by Steve. Since the source is the same foundry, it would be the same outlines Adobe used to license if you have old files you want to resurrect, but with the expanded glyph set and other OpenType features of the Pro.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Sometimes Adobe's licensing of fonts in Adobe Fonts ends, and is not available again.

You can go to www.MyFonts.com to purchase the font, which is still available:

If you want to search for a similar looking font on Adobe Fonts, you can submit a picture of ITC Berkeley and it will show you similar-appearing fonts, if you don't want to spend any money. Use the Search by Image button to upload a picture.