Adobe is dropping PostScript Type 1 font support—be prepared for the change
A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type designs into a particular file format—will lose full support in Adobe Photoshop this year, and gradually disappear from other Adobe products by 2023, as well as from other companies’ products. If you have a long history in design or using a Mac, you might find yourself unable to use some old type standbys you didn’t realize relied on outdated technology.
If you never purchased typefaces, only bought them in roughly the last 20 years, or predicated a long time ago that this would be a problem and took advantage of downloading newer versions of fonts you bought (either at no cost or by paying the digital type foundry), congratulations! You don’t have to think about this.
However, if you believe some of the typefaces you use are of the Type 1 variety—particularly ones you recall paying hundreds or thousands
