But so many "designers" out there simply don't care. I dislike artificial squeezing and stretching of typefaces in general, but it's really terrible when done to a carefully balanced, geometric sans face like Gotham. I really hate seeing Gotham artificially squeezed and stretched on things like outdoor signs. It has proliferated both legally and illegally. Now I'm getting sick of seeing this typeface (and I spent a good chunk of money buying a license of it). Look how Gotham exploded onto the design scene in the 2000's. Many style trends with type have come and gone. Some old typefaces get visual and technological facelifts (such as Helvetica Now, Futura Now, Albertus Nova, etc). Most people who are actively creating graphic designs on a commercial basis aren't ever going to be done buying fonts as long as they continue working in this industry. The point is that I have bought all the fonts I need over the past 40 years. When Typekit, aka Adobe Fonts, came along I was pretty amazed, even though the limits to the service were pretty obvious from the outset. I don't remember getting any fonts in the Master Collection 5.5 box. Most versions of Creative Suite software boxes included hardly any fonts. When Berthold's fonts were no longer included in newer versions of Adobe Illustrator we got a different fonts bundle package with faces from outfits like the Image Club (some of the ICG fonts were knock-off clones of other typefaces). In the past, if they did include certain fonts in a retail software box those fonts would only be around for maybe a couple version cycles. They can't arbitrarily include just any of the countless thousands of commercial type families that exist. The Interstate type family by Tobias Frere-Jones is one example of a type family that got pulled from Adobe Fonts only to return under a different foundry banner.Īnyway, the point is Adobe doesn't have dominion over the commercial fonts industry. So while Font Bureau removed the catalog of fonts it was offering to Adobe Fonts, some of the individual designers whose fonts were affected made deals direct with Adobe. The funny thing is Font Bureau itself has to make deals with individual type designers to distribute fonts they create. Font Bureau decided to remove the fonts they distribute from Adobe Fonts. Other type foundries have participated in the Adobe Fonts service only temporarily. The ones Berthold would sell direct to the public often had the "BQ" suffix applied to their names. To complicate matters, the Berthold fonts that were bundled with Adobe applications a long time a ago had the "BE" suffix applied to their names. Adobe hasn't had a deal with Berthold since the mid 1990's. I've never seen any Berthold fonts included in Typekit/Adobe Fonts in the entire time Adobe has been offering the service to CC customers.
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