Unable to use third party licensed fonts in InDesign

Considering that every font foundry my shop has checked and tested has changed to the subscription / usage fee model, it's difficult to justify using these foundries for our client jobs. One foundry quoted us $40,000 US PER YEAR to use 4 weights in a government PDF that would be printed and posted on the agency's website.

I can't count high enough to calculate what it would cost to use their fonts in corporate branding. Gah!

Adobe is the good guy when it comes to fonts: free downloads and no recurring usage fees. Install them on your computer, embed them into PDFs and EPUBs, or use them on websites and in other digital media. No extra fees — at least at this time!

The only other font option is open-source fonts. Jointly developed by Google, Adobe and I can't recall who else, they are available for free from https://fonts.google.com/  They have a SIL license, which is a very liberal usage license that lets us designers do what we've always done with fonts, other than reselling them.

$600 for AG condensed!?

Thanks for the help.

But I am only interested in creative design not high level decisions made to compromise the quality of service I expect from Adobe.

Add me to the list. I have no idea what you're talking about unless it's the end of Type 1 support. If so, that decision makes perfect sense as any support for them will be ending everywhere and it was announced years ago.

I'm rather confused too.

Adobe now offers 10 times as many fonts as it used to when Font Folio was $5000-$10000. Some foundries didn't join the subscription service though.

If you move to another platform you'll have to license those fonts instead of getting them bundled with an Adobe subscription. Nothing to stop you paying for Berthold fonts either way.

Hi Gary:

At least allow creatives to build their own font library and don't dictate what you think are reasonable.

To be clear, you can license any fonts you like and they will work with InDesign.

It's unclear why Berthold didn't choose to partner with Adobe to include some of their fonts with our Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions, but all of their fonts are for sale here: https://www.bertholdtypes.com. There are other page layout applications that you can switch to, but to the best of my knowledge, none are going to include Berthold fonts for free. You will need to purchase them, one way or another. 

~Barb

I'm confused.

Adobe doesn't dictate what fonts you may use, though it does provide access to a large number of fonts as part of the Creative Cloud subscription. I suspect the lack of Berthold fonts in this selection is due to an unwillingness on the part of the foundry to have them distributed this way, but there is nothing preventing you from purchasing a license directly from Berthold or another vendor with whom they do have distribution agreements.