Adobe has announced that they will end support for creating content with Type 1 fonts by January 2023. Here's how you can prepare to make the shift to more widely supported formats.

Compatibility with Type 1 fonts was later extended thanks to native support on macOS and Windows (2000). Adobe products stopped supporting the technology altogether in January 2023, ...

You can find your Type 1 fonts in two ways in macOS: via the Finder and the Font Book app. In the Finder, you can pull a list of all fonts anywhere on mounted volumes via a smart folder: ...

Upcoming Windows releases will no longer include support for Adobe Postscript Type 1 fonts. Microsoft is now announcing the end of Type 1 font support. The discontinuation has now appeared on ...

Point size: Type and fonts are measured in archaic units called points, one point being very close to 1/72 of an inch. Text (normal reading) sizes tend to run in the range of 8 to 12 points; the ...

If you run across sites offering older PostScript Type 1 fonts (.pfb/.pfm), they’re obsolete, so skip them. Installing fonts on Windows. If you're using Windows 10 or 11: ...

OpenType allowed fonts to use either TrueType or Type 1 formats, and let a single font file work on both Mac and Windows, making documents much easier to interchange. The Modern Web and Ubiquity ...