Summary

  • Adobe has given Creative Cloud subscribers access to 1,500 new fonts, its biggest expansion in five years.
  • These can be used across a range of apps including Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
  • More than 750 of the fonts were provided via a collaboration with Monotype, which owns licenses for Helvetica, Gotham and Avenir.
  • Previous versions of these fonts were removed in January this year when Adobe ended support for Type 1 fonts.
  • The new fonts are integrated into Creative Cloud at no extra cost, meaning designers no longer have to pay Monotype for a license or download them locally.
  • The expansion aims to reduce the number of ‘frustrating missing font pop-ups’ that users had previously encountered.
  • Times New Roman, Arial and Proxima Nova are among the new additions, along with fonts to support a range of alphabets used in languages such as Arabic, Chinese and Japanese.

By Jess Weatherbed

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