Type & Typography

I purchased Minion Pro (OpenType) last night.  I’m working in Microsoft Word 2010 on Windows 7 64-bit. When I go into the Font dialog and tap on the Advance tab, all of the Open Type Features dropdown lists are grey and disabled.  Deleted the font and then reinstalled it.  Same results.  For some other fonts (e.g., Adobe Garamond Pro and Caslon Pro) the Open Type Features dropdown lists are enabled. Any ideas?  Thanks in advance for your help.-r

Hello, I am in need of clarification with core fonts afm licensing.Specifically, the current readme says:"This file and the 14 PostScript(R) AFM files it accompanies may be used, copied, and distributed for any purpose and without charge, with or without modification,"this is almost an ISC licence.That one says:"Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee..."I'm pretty sure the difference is accidental. I'm not talking about the font itself, but only about the font metrics file.It would be cool if the core afm could be made available under a more permissive licence.Most specifically, this would allow using them in OpenBSD-based software products, including mandoc.Currently, this is blocking  the generation of PostScript/Pdf without proper kerning, thus leading to the impression that those core fonts look bad.So I'm looking to talk to whoever is in charge of this at Adobe to clarify the situation.Note that I'm not talking about t

Hi everyone, I have been having issues with a couple of fonts for a while and have tried different ways to fix it (printing from a PDF, validating fonts, exporting save for web, etc). The main problem is with Avenir. It never looks fully "crisp" or "clear" (hope that makes sense). I use it for a lot of design stuff, both print and digital, and I feel it never displays correctly.  I have attached a screenshot of how it looks in photoshop. It might be my eyes playing tricks on me, but I'm sure Avenir looks clearer on Word or on other computers (ie, my home laptop). Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hello, I'm wondering about the font sizes. I've designed a website and the programmer has taken over the font sizes, but on the website they look much bigger than in my design. Welche Which font unit does xd use? Px or maybe pt? Or maybe you have another idea why it could be?

So I downloaded a font I liked on behance but now I cant figure out how to use it in Photoshop. Please help

I've been looking for a suitable font for my thesis and Adobe Caslon Pro seems appropriate to me.I've been experiencing some issues though, when typing into Windows Word 2016. I need to type some accented uppercase letters, and Word won't let me use Adobe Caslon and will switch to some other font instead. Checked randomly into Illustrator and uppercase letters (È, À, etc.) do exist. Will I need to give it up?

I find this new type technology wonderful, and expected it with curiosity.But there are some oddities that I'm wondering about.As you probably know, Windows 10 Creators fall update supports variable fonts.Microsoft delivered the Bahnschrift.ttf as an example font with one axis for width.This font is installed in the Windows/Fonts folder. It is displayed and with full functinality usable in Illustrator 2018 and Photoshop 2018.In older programms (including down to 1998!) you at least see and can use the 5 variation steps.The new Adobe fonts are hidden in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2018\Support Files\Required\Fonts. They can't be installed in the fonts folder of Windows, they are rejected as invalid font files. Therefore they are visible and usable in Illustrator and Photoshop only.Now for DECOVAR font.I installed it in Windows/Fonts.In Illustrator all goes well but Photoshop crashes when just the mouse pointer touches the font name in the font list.The older programs see

Any knows if it is possible to buy entire Trajan Pro for offline use?

I've used Sabon for many years for my correspondence. Beautiful, elegant font. More readable than Adobe Garamond for normal correspondence.Recently bought a new 2017 iMac running 10.12.6 and Pages 6.2. Sabon shows up perfectly in my documents, but it won't print. It prints some klugy san serif that isn't even proportionally letterspaced. Awful, ugly stuff. I've used Sabon for decades. All worked well up until new computer. Worked perfectly up until 10.11.4 and Pages 5.6.2.  My Sabon fonts are Postscript Type 1 fonts gotten from Adobe years ago (1989). Any help?? Do I need a newer or different version of Sabon? It's ironic that I can copy and paste into a Word document and it prints beautifully. But if I write it in Word it prints the san serif crap. Makes no difference which printer I use, HP laser of Epson 2200.

Hello -- I am puzzling over an InDesign typography question that I hope someone can help me with. I am doing section titles in all-caps. I find three ways to make capital letters and they vary slightly in appearance:1) Type with caps lock on.2) Type with caps lock on and TT selected3) Type with caps lock off and TT selectedWhich is correct, meaning which way did the type designer intend it to be? I’m using Arno by Robert Slimbach. Thanks for your help.

We have recently become aware of an anomaly that was introduced with the Windows 10 Creators Update affecting fonts that are installed via “shortcut.”Most fonts are either installed by the operating system or applications directly into the C:\Windows\Fonts directory and users can install fonts into that directory by right-clicking on a font and selecting “Install.” However, Windows also offers the option to install a font but keeping the font file itself in some other location in the file system. This option is invoked by right-clicking on the font file and selecting the “Install as Shortcut” option. (Many of us use such “Shortcut” installation of fonts as a means of disciplined housekeeping for large numbers of fonts and font families!)The anomaly is that after powering up / rebooting your system, fonts installed via “Shortcut” won't appear either in the Fonts Control Panel or in applications' font lists.By simply rebooting your system, those installed by “Shortcut” fonts will reappea

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Is this font correct: AA102+ArialBold (embedded subset).We have file containing theses kinds of fonts, and it cause issues in our internal system. Due to the "+" sign.I can't join the file itself since it contains our client personal data. So here's a screen-shot.I don't find any documentation about font naming convention or characters to avoid in font name.I'd like to know if this font is correct or not. And if this is a usual thing to find theses kind of fonts naming.Tank you.

Hey everyone I am having quite a few issues with this font. I need this font font the web. The line-height is completely screwed up. There is too much space on the bottom compared to the top. And I have no idea how to fix this. Second I am creating a logo with this font in illustrator and when I expand it and save it as an svg the letters are completed screwed up as well. This is how to logo looks when expanding and exporting as svg. When expanded in illustrator and looking at it, it looks completely fine but when I open the file it looks like this If you look at the blue highlight you can see the line-height on this font. There should be a even amount of space from the top to bottom. and you can clearly see it's not

Windows 10 64 bit; Adobe CC 2018; Extensis Suitcase Fusion 8.0Can anyone recommend a font manager that supports auto-activation, like the Suitcase Fusion program does? I've been using SF since version 4 for Windows and with the past few releases I dislike the interface more and more. I find I'm spending too much time playing tech support to get it to work. Also, the plug-in for Word and PowerPoint - Suitcase Attache doesn't always work - I have to keep reinstalling it periodically. Overall, I'm disappointed with the direction SF has taken. Any suggestions would be most welcome.

I can't use Typekit at all. Everytime I sign in it automatically reloads the page so I can't get any fonts.

I have purchased the Adobe ELP1 Font Foilo EDU ESS 11 but I can not figure out how to install it.I got an Adobe Buying Programs email and accessed the link that provided and still could not find any link for installation.I also called customer service to ask for help, unfortunately they let me waited for 40 minutes without coming back.Please suggest me what to do.Thank you.

Why does a Typekit Adobe Arabic font synced into InDesign only show up as an English font?

First of all I apologize if this topic is not on the right place, I just joined.Now, the thing is that I need someone to tell me the name of this font cus I am looking for ages now.Please, any help is needed.Thank you.

Increase font size to greater than the 22” indicated. I’m trying to add text to illustrations and am befuddled. ! !

I use Helvetica Neue LT Pro as my company font. Recently, I have documents requesting the uppercase sharp S character in German materials. This font glyph does not seem available in Helv Neue LT Pro. Any ideas how to add it to the font set, or whether the font will be updated with this additional glyph?

Here are some rather unusual examples of contextual features used to achieve some special effects. I hope they inspire interesting and creative uses. Here are three examples of interesting effects one can achieve by using contextual alternates in OpenType. I presented and discussed the code for these at the Type Tech Forum at the ATypI Helsinki conference, Sep 14 2005. I will be showing the effects without going into detail on the code at the St Bride "Temporary Type" conference, Oct 10-12 2005. * * * * * * I came up with this code trying to help make a pseodo-random font like Beowolf work in OpenType, without using the "random" ('rand') feature. This example is for a case where you have eight different glyph forms for each character. While typing, the first character is shown using the first form ("default"), and each character after will use the next ascending glyph set, until you run out, when it wraps back to the beginning of the cycle. Repeatedly calling a single lookup allow

My type 1 Sabon no longer prints with Apple's Pages. I need to get a new version. Does either the Adobe version or Monotype version (Sabon Pro) match the Type 1 Sabon?

I can't find the 'perfect' font for a particular logo.  How would I go about creating my own?I have Illustrator and Photoshop.Assuming I could create a set of alphabetic characters, would I be able to use them via Photoshop in the same way other PS fonts work?thanks,Paz

We are rebranding our non-profit educational consulting organization and considering using a particular font. Is there any kind of site-wide license we can purchase, or do we have to buy the font for every person in our organization? If that's the case, it will probably be cost prohibitive.