Missing fonts

[Trains1985]

What is the benefit Adobe has by discontinuing some fonts?

I have some files, created prior to CC, back in the Creative Suite days, that can't by opened [in CC], looking exactly like they did when I originally made them. Very frustrating!

Sand Patch

[Steve Werner]

What fonts are you missing? You're correct that some of the standard  built-in fonts (e.g., Minion Pro) have a reduced number of styles installed in current installations. However, Adobe doesn't delete those fonts. I have Adobe fonts which collected from various Adobe versions and as assets for various versions of Adobe applications I used while teaching. They're still in the same storage location they've always been in: On my Mac, I store them in [hard drive name] > Library > Fonts, one of the Mac's standard font installation locations. I've always backed up those fonts, and I still have them.

Did you lose the fonts when you moved to newer computer?

The fonts are probably available for syncing with Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) which you should have access to with a CC subscription.

[Trains1985]

Yes, I have lost some fonts. I don't have my other computer with me, so I can't think of all of them off the top of my head.

One vital one to my workflow is "California - something."

Thanks,

Sand Patch

[ericcarlson]

Some of your questions are likely answered on this page: Creative Cloud fonts, installation & FAQs | Adobe Type​. In particular, at the bottom of the page are links to (extensive) lists of the fonts that were bundled with CS6, CS5 & 5.5, CS4 and CS3 & earlier versions of the Adobe CS apps. (Off hand I found nothing beginning with ‘California’ amongst these.) As Steve Werner said, however, Adobe updates and installers should not remove existing fonts from your computer.

It is also worth mentioning that fonts, like other software, are sometimes updated by the foundry/designer. It is therefore possible that a font was updated and that the horizontal or vertical metrics changed from one version to another, leading to perceptible changes in layout—despite the font having the same name. (For what it’s worth, InDesign does not use the file name, it uses metadata within the font itself to determine a font’s name. This metadata also includes a version number that might not be readily apparent without having, say, a separate font management app.)

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

There has never been a font from Adobe's Type Library with a name beginning with California during the Creative Suite timeframe. Any such font must have been installed by the operating system or some other application.

There is a family of fonts named Californian FB distributed with some versions of Microsoft Office. Maybe those are the fonts that you are looking for. The same family of Californian FB fonts is also available with the cloud-based Adobe Fonts (previously Typekit) service which is available to you as a Creative Cloud subscriber.

If you provide the names of the other “missing” fonts, perhaps we can assist you further. But as Steve Werner indicated, installing a newer version of Adobe software does not uninstall any fonts that had been installed on your system by Adobe or any other software.

In the general case, if migrating to a new computer system, you should always copy any non-system fonts from the old to the new system. Even more important is that you regularly backup your computer such that if there are resources that are either lost or damaged on your current system or not otherwise available on a newer system, you can directly access those files from your backup. You do regularly backup your systems, don't you?

          - Dov

[Trains1985]

Thanks a lot for the insight!

Sand Patch