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Trains1985
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January 26, 2019
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Missing fonts

  • January 26, 2019
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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prior to CC, back in the Creative Suite days, that can't by opened [in CC], looking exactly like they did when I originally made them.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

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    Correct answer Dov Isaacs

    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

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    Steve Werner
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    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
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    January 26, 2019

    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.

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    Trains1985Author
    Inspiring
    January 26, 2019

    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

    Dov Isaacs
    Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
    Legend
    January 27, 2019

    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

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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