Adobe Fonts

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Find the perfect font for any assignment

Providing stunning, elegant, and beautiful typography since 1985, Adobe Type offers more than 2,300 typefaces. With support for more alphabets in Pro fonts, and typographic refinements like swashes, small caps, and old-style figures, designers can find whatever they need for any project. Best of all are Adobe Originals, exciting new fonts and updated classics from the world's leading type designers.

Use the Font Finder Tools in the box on the right to browse the Adobe Type Library.

Adobe Font Folio 11

Adobe Font Folio 11 is a collection of more than 2,300 fonts from the Adobe Type Library in OpenType® format, which provides enhanced linguistic support, advanced typographic features, and true cross-platform compatibility. Learn more

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Arno Pro

A classic, multi-featured OpenType family, which includes extensive Latin and pan-European language coverage, a broad pallet of weights and optically-sized fonts, and the power of sophisticated layout features.

Adobe Type Library Reference Book, OpenType Edition

Over 300 pages of type samples, classifications, and technical info.

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Adobe Fonts Collections

These low-cost type sets allow you to explore the beauty and breadth of the Adobe Type Library.

Font Technology

Learn what OpenType means for you

In the digital age, it pays to understand the technology behind the typefaces you use. Don't know OpenType from Multiple Masters? Not sure how Japanese typography differs from Western? To avoid incompatability issues and understand how modern digital fonts work, please see the following:

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OpenType

OpenType gives designers true cross-platform compatibility, improved linguistic support, and enhanced typographic functionality.

Optical Sizes in OpenType

Learn why all sizes are not equal when it comes to type—and what that means for you.

Font formats

Find out how type technologies differ and why you should consider OpenType.

Managing fonts under Mac OS X (PDF 4.1MB)

Having trouble with fonts in OS X? This guide provides everything you need to know to manage your fonts effectively.

OpenType developer information

Developing your own type? Find out how Adobe type technology can help.

OpenType Q & A

Get a quick overview of how OpenType and what it means for you.

Adobe Originals and Typography

Use only the world's highest quality type

Created exclusively for Adobe by award-winning type designers worldwide, Adobe Originals include new designs as well as revivals of typographic classics. Ranging from individual display typefaces to full-featured families with optical sizes, they deliver consistently beautiful, high-quality type.

Font How To

Install fonts

Having trouble installing your fonts or making sure they work in all your favorite applications? Use these handy guides to get up and running fast.

Adobe Type Manager Light

Improve font appearance with the application that generates high-quality bitmaps from the PostScript^® outlines in Type 1 or OpenType^® format.

Font Community

Thomas "my other car is a sans serif" Phinney is Adobe's Product Manager for Fonts & Global Typography. "Typblography, the Phinney-us Blogg" contains his musings on the technical, business, historical and design aspects of type (fonts) and its technologies, including OpenType and SING. More

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Type Designers

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John Benson

A type designer of monumental enterprise.

Ryoko Nishizuka

Creator of the Ryo Text and Ryo Display "kana" typeface families.

Alan Blackman

In search of the Grail or just the perfect typeface?

Jim Parkinson

From the '60s to the '90s, his Mojo™ typeface has been working overtime.

Carl Crossgrove

Signmaker, graphic designer, and award-winning type designer.

Joy Redick

Creating art for over 25 years, her work has been show in museums and galleries worldwide.

Rick Cusick

Drawing inspiration from Nyx, the Greek goddess of night.

David Siegel

Typeface designer and internationally recognized authority on internet strategy.

Timothy Donaldson

His magnificent obsession with handwriting styles, tools, and materials.

Robert Slimbach

This prolific master craftsman helped pioneer digital type design.

Mário Feliciano

One of the few type designers in Portugal.

Christopher Slye

Since 1997, he has helped expand the design and functionality of Adobe Originals typefaces.

Craig Frazier

He has enjoyed a distinguished career as a designer and illustrator.

Viktor Solt-Bittner

Fascinated with letterforms - both handwritten and printed - since 1990.

Lynne Garell

Fascinated by letterforms since she was a kid.

Laurie Szujewska

A recipient of numerous design awards.

Michael Harvey

Lettercutter, stonecutter, book jacket designer, and jazz fan.

Jeremy Tankard

His high quality and unique type designs have earned him a worldwide reputation.

Lance Hidy

Interested in letterforms since the age of 12, this type designer is well known for his book and poster designs, illustration and photography.

Carol Twombly

Making type and history: the first woman to win the Charles Peignot award for type design.

Cleo Huggins

Creator of the first Adobe Original font.

Jovica Veljovic

You'll find his calligraphy in art collections worldwide. To understand why, take a look at the Ex Ponto^® typeface.

Mark Jamra

After 15 years in Europe, this internationally respected type designer lives and works in Portland, Maine.

Min Wang

His work has been exhibited in international showcases.

Akira Kobayashi

His type designs have won numerous international awards.

Michael Want

A type foundry co-founder with big aspirations.

Masahiko Kozuka

Designing Japanese types since the early 1950s, he experienced the following technological changes in typography: hot metal, photographic, and digital types.