Fonts - fucked?
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- nylon
The majority of my fonts will no longer work.
My collection spans 25 years.
I DID ignore the warnings in InDesign and Illustrator about "January 2023".
Did anyone find a fix for this? How do you get your fonts these days?
Clearly Adobe Typeset ain't cutting it and I'm not about to start purchasing fonts again...
Thoughts?
- shapesalad1
Font convertor?
- Continuity0
Are you using a font manager?
- nylon0
I used Suitcase for years.
I got laid on in November and so did not renew Suitcase.
I am now using Fontbase at $3 a month.
Am on a M1 Mac Studio if that helps.
- Continuity0
It's really odd you're having troubles with FontBase. I've had no problems at all.
Something's fucky.
- Miesfan0
Maybe this works
https://www.themacguys.com/posts…
- evilpeacock0
I spent a huge amount of time re-building mine and my employer-at-the-time's font library way back in the mid-aughts when OpenType started taking over.
This mostly involved re-licensing, acquiring a full set of the "classics" via Adobe Font Folio updates, but also seeking out conversions of more obscure classics. These days I still have my T1 masters in archives, but everything else is either TrueType or OTF. And really it's been much smoother sailing ever since, at least as far as font-conflicts and corrupt metrics goes.
Way back then Apple even extended Type 1 support due to demand so the migration wasn't super pressing. Still, OTF versions of all the Type 1 typefaces had updated ligatures, expanded characters, and better Unicode support.
It's been over a decade since that first warning that T1 fonts would lose support. At this point I can't blame software makers for finally dropping them.
- doesnotexist0
guess i'm not using fonts anymore
- thumb_screws1
I’ve not used it but colleague said it worked well.
https://www.fontlab.com/font-con…