![]() This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. Source is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. It shouldn't matter if they make a couple nickels less on some of the fonts, do the right thing and add all the fonts.Copyright 2010, 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated ( ), with Reserved Font Name ‘Source’. Not doing that is a HUGE disconnect to their business and supporting their long standing and LOYAL customers. Adobe needs to add all the fonts that they origanlly sold on their CDs onto Typekit. The Helvetica Neue kerning pairs were also much better than the base Helvetica, so tons of people migrated to Helvetica Neue when it was introcduced. Helvetica was and still is a terrific font for blocks of dense text and legal copy in documents. The bottom line is, I have YEARS worth of creative with tons of Helvetica and Helvectica Neue typesetting. I'm sure it has something to do with paying the type foundries royalties or some other sort of financial decision. They sold everyone their font CDs years ago, and not to have those same fonts available on Typekit has been and will continue to be a HUGE problem. Not having Helvetica Neue on Typekit is a HUGE disconnect and something Adobe needs to correct. Helvetica has been the default font used on so much creative over the years, there's tons of artwork that was set in Helvetica and Helvetica Neue. Not having Helvetica continues to be a HUGE issue. Those two type families are Helvetica-adjacent. I'm kind of surprised to see New Haas Unica and New Haas Grotesk Display in the Top 20 (at #13 and #14) since both are available to sync at Adobe Fonts. I just looked at MyFonts' Top 50 list of Best Sellers. Monotype might be hesistant to do that since the various Helvetica type families have been steady money makers in the commercial fonts industry. Adobe and Monotype have to agree to some kind of a deal in order for any versions of Helvetica to be carried on the Adobe Fonts service. So it's not really up to them to "cut out" Helvetica from the Adobe Fonts service. So many of my clients have this as their brand font and there is NONE of them would be okay with using an alternative.īy Adobe does not own the rights to any version of Helvetica. That is absolutely absurd for Adobe to cut out Helvetica when it is the MOST used font. It's a little annoying spending money on commercial type only to find the same type families available on Adobe Fonts months or years later. I spent $100 (introductory price) buying a copy when it was first introduced. New Haas Grotesk was the typeface's original name before it was renamed "Helvetica." Then there is New Haas Unica, which is a cross between Helvetica and Univers. New Haas Grotesk is a revival of the original cut of Helvetica from Max Miedinger. ![]() Monotype has around 40 or so type families hosted on Adobe Fonts. Numerous other Helvetica clones (or Helveti-clones) have been made over the years, such as Bitstream's Swiss 721 family or Compugraphics' GC Triumvirate. Nimbus Sans is a pretty close imitation of Helvetica Neue. In recent years Monotype developed and released static and variable versions of Helvetica Now.Īdobe would have to make some kind of deal with Monotype in order to include any of the multiple versions of Helvetica available in digital form, be it the original 1957 cut, the 1980's neue versions or the recent now versions. Linotype had the rights to Helvetica many years prior to that and developed the Helvetica Neue family in the early 1980's (via Stempel AG, a Linotype subsidiary). Helvetica is now owned by Monotype, due in part to Monotype acquiring Linotype in 2006. Adobe does not own the Helvetica typeface or have any legal rights to bundle it into the Adobe Fonts service.
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