Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Where to find Adobe CC fonts

I've been using Adobe CS6 for the past several years rather than switching to Creative Cloud. I'm one of those crazy people who doesn't want to pay $600 every year for the same software. This hasn't been a problem up until now, when a client needed a file put together using some specific fonts and had no way of sending them to me.

Seriously. The file was created with InDesign CC, and Adobe will not let you include the fonts when packaging it up. They do this to force more people to sign up for Creative Cloud, of course, but nobody's going to pay $600 just to access a few fonts for one project. Certainly not me.

So here's how I got the files. It was tricky, because Adobe does not want you to know where they are. But they're here:

Mac: /Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync/plugins/livetype/.r

Windows: C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CoreSync\plugins\livetype\r

Now, when you open this folder (on Windows anyway), you won't see fonts per se. You'll see some files with no file extensions and given numbers instead of names. But those are your fonts. Just copy them out and add a ".ttf" file extension, and viola! You've got your fonts.

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