P: Missing (type-1) fonts after Photoshop 23.0 update

[AltonChristensen]

Legit fonts from legit foundries that appeared in PS2021 are not appearing in 2022.

Downgrading.

MacOS 10.15.7

{Moderator note: Edited the thread title}

[amy durocher]

Photoshop announced end of life for PostScript Type 1 in fonts in 2021 (September 2019):

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/announcement-end-of-support-postscript-type-1-fonts.html

Adobe Photoshop will cease support of PostScript Type 1 fonts in year 2021. At that time, PostScript Type 1 fonts will no longer be listed in Photoshop's Font menu.

This legacy format, created by Adobe in the mid-1980s during the early days of desktop publishing, is already unsupported in major software applications, open-source libraries, and mobile platforms. The time has now come to sunset support in Photoshop, allowing us to better focus on innovative new typographic efforts as we look to the future. 

It’s our goal to provide users with enough advance notice to make any required changes to affected documents. The successor to Type 1, OpenType was released in 2000 and offers significant typographic advantages. Adobe offers thousands of OpenType fonts through its Adobe Fonts service, which is included with a Creative Cloud membership.

[Lumigraphics]

Adobe really should offer a usable conversion tool or replace licensed fonts with .otf versions. Not that I expect it to happen.

I have Poppl-Laudatio family and its not on Adobe Fonts.

[Zorasgar]

is anyone having issues with their fonts not showing up? I just updated and re-opened a file I was working on and the fonts just disappeared, while they still are installed on my mac.

[Constance5EC7]

My Sabon font is not showing up in Photoshop 2022. (I'm on a Mac desktop.) The font is in the font book, and shows up in other apps like Word. I've tried some of the trouble shooting things -- deleting the font cache, validating fonts, reset preferences on quit. Nothing changes. This is a crucial font for me. Please help!

Thank you

[vangokart]

I'm experiencing the same as others above. InDesign and Illustrator are still loading PS Type 1 Fonts but not Photoshop. Regardless of the prior 'announcement' this is pretty important info to creative developers. Out of curiosity, how was this communicated? One announcement on a Forum page or similar doesn't really constitute adequate communication. If there is an email to which I can subscribe, please let us know. I'd love to know about stuff like this. The removal of the 3D features in Photoshop was also not really widely communicated and came as a surprise, but that's a topic for another day.

[durocher]

Photoshop Product Manager here...the deprecation of Type 1 fonts was first announced back in September 2019, since then we have tried to get the word out on the deprecation via Reddit, Twitter, and Adobe Community articles - but clearly the message did not reach all our valued users. The team is working on better and more consistent ways to communicate changes to the UI, workflows, and deprecation of features so changes have limited disruptions. 

A few suggestions regarding the deprecation of the Type 1 fonts: look to see if there is an equivalent OpenType font (fonts.adobe.com). If using a bespoke Type 1 font - an option is to reach out to the foundry to see if they can convert to an OpenType font.

[Lumigraphics]

I have the Poppl-Laudatio family which I got with Photoshop 3.0 way back in about 1995 and I've used it in hundreds of documents. Its several hundred bucks to purchase (what I think is the same family, from Berthold) and Adobe no longer offers it. I guess I could use TransType (which also costs money) or poke around with command line tools to see if I can convert those typefaces. :sigh:

[jeffa35877359]

Hi. Today trying to open a saved doc on my laptop I cannot use the Futura T font which is in my fonts folder. Photoshop 2022 cannot access it. This is disturbing!

[durocher]

@jeffa35877359 Photoshop (and soon other Creative Cloud apps) no longer supports Type 1 fonts. Try activating "Futura PT" on fonts.adobe.com as a substitute. 

Here is an Adobe HelpX article that goes into detail about the discontinuation of Type 1 fonts:

https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

[jlw97]

I had been aware from the Adobe HelpX article cited above that Type 1 support would end in 2023. I did not realize that this meant "Photoshop Type 1 support will end sometime in 2021 whenever we feel like it." I realize that Type 1 fonts are no longer the gold mine for Adobe that they once were, so you don't care, but this policy doesn't seem very user-centric.

[egangnath]

Yes, and it's really frustrating. I've used the same fonts for almost a decade with no problem and all of a sudden with this update they're not recognized.

I am not getting this error message in illustrator or indesign, just the newest photoshop. I even reinstalled the previous version of photoshop (2021) and it is not a problem in that build. I have thousands of files that use this font family and it's not an option to have to reinstall with a different name and have to change and update them each time I open a file. What's up?

[adrianb76168745]

We've experieced the same problem with our primary brand font Gotham. The message is confusing about Type 1 -  says this will happen 2023? Had to go back to previous version.

[dano14087812]

Yep, we were getting pop-up warnings in Indesign about the 2023 event – didn't get any for PSD though. I wonder if there any other Adobe applications that are doing the same before 2023?

[amy durocher]

@dano14087812 Photoshop was the first of the Creative Cloud apps to discontinue Type 1 fonts. The other apps will discontinue Type 1 support by the end of 2022. 

[poppaneedsanap]

I'm in the same boat here. I have a large commercial library half of which no longer works in this upgrade. This is 100% a deal killer. Thanks Adobe

[defaulte0fyi6btx6l1]

Yes - same issue. I run most updated version of Suitcase Fusion. Spent all morning trying to troubleshoot. Maybe downgrading is the way to go. Thanks Adobe.

[default5x8zy9k8vkkq]

This is a shocking development. We are a global ad agency and have hundreds of fonts across hundreds of clients that suddenly won't work in Photoshop because of "digital parameters". Loads of our work is print, etc so this doesn't really fly. Will be advising staff to not udgrade.

Your specified deadline (that may as well have been posted on our nearest inhabited planet) is Jan 2023, are we living in the future?

[Lumigraphics]

You will need to repurchase all of your Type 1 fonts in OpenType formats.

[defaultxf5orufsb1nd]

Wow... I don't know what effort was made to make people aware of this MASSIVE change, but I personally had zero time to prepare as I just found out from searching after what seems like 90% of the fonts I've been using for over a decade suddenly stopped working today. Insane...

[Lumigraphics]

I suspect that Type 1 fonts have worked better than anyone ever expected and that there will be massive backlash to abandoning the format, from pros who have huge and expensive type libraries. There is no way I could afford to repurchase even a small fraction of the fonts I use.

[defaultxf5orufsb1nd]

I've already rolled back and don't intend to update unless they come to their senses on this... simply can't afford to lose 90% of my font collection out of the blue. I suppose they'll try to use this to promote fonts.adobe.com, which I agree is an awesome resource... but that doesn't mean I simply want to throw away the thousands of dollars I invested building my Type 1 collection over the years.

[pagalina]

What I don't understand is why the fonts that don't work in PS now, because of this decision, work in other Adobe apps fine. I understand that perhaps it's the right decision, but to not do it consistently across all applications is confusing and illogical. I really don't want to spend $500 to replace a suite of fonts that is dictated by my client's branding either. 

[Lumigraphics]

Photoshop has implemented a new type engine that has apparently not been brought over to other apps yet.

[forsythek9450]

Yes, I just upgraded my Mac OS to Monterey, and Photoshop to 23.0.1. I'm trying to make updates to a client website, and the font for their logo (ITC Fenice) is no longer showing up. Do I need to purchase and OpenType version of the font?

[pagalina]

You can downgrade to a previous version of Photoshop. and then convert the text to shapes so it won't rely on the font going forward.