Adobe adds more than 1,500 new fonts with support for ten Indian languages

Adobe announced that it added more than 1,500 new typefaces/fonts to its Adobe Fonts library, allowing all paid Creative Cloud subscribers to use them without needing to pay any extra fees, alongside expanding support for 10 Indian languages.

While users have thousands of typefaces they can choose from across word processing programmes and software platforms, professional designers can only use typefaces/fonts that have been licensed by them or their design technology provider. Otherwise, they run the risk of infringing copyright or the creator’s usage permissions.

“With over 30,000 fonts, Adobe Fonts is a powerful and versatile font library for creators everywhere. Whether you’re designing for print, digital, or across languages, you’ll always have the right type at your fingertips,” said Adobe in its post.

This is why Adobe highlighted that popular typefaces such as Helvetica, Gotham, Avenir, Times New Roman, Arial, and Proxima Nova had been added to Adobe Fonts. There is also support for Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, and Urdu.

While serif typefaces create an elegant, old-world look for print, sans-serif typefaces are better suited to screens and digital platforms.

“Love Helvetica? Can’t get enough of Arial? Craving Times New Roman? Today is your lucky day! We’ve added more than 1,500 new fonts to Adobe Fonts, including many of the most popular fonts of all time from Monotype. This is our largest font expansion in five years – and it comes at no extra cost,” said Adobe in a blog post announcing the update.