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Aug 5, 2024, 1:14:43 AM8/5/24

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HiAdobe fonts are taking too long time to be installed! I guess this is an old issue, I used to have this same problem when this service was called as "Type Kit". I can see the problem continues, unfortunelly. My internet connection is Ok.

At this time, the best way to help the Adobe Fonts team fix activation issues is by posting your recent CoreSync logs from around the time you experience the delay, and let us know whether you are activating fonts in Creative Cloud Desktop or directly from the Adobe F

I have this problem as well. Bit of a joke when you pay a subscription service fee. It literally takes ages for the font to appear in Illustrator. This never used to be an issue and is adding time onto my days.

We are sorry to hear you are facing trouble while activating fonts. If you've already tried the steps shared by Liz. We would request you to please get in touch with us directly using this link: so that we can assist you further?

This is a little ridiculous... paying hundreds of dollars for a subscription and not able to download 2 fonts in a reasonable amount of time. Taking now 3 hours to download. Something has to be address on Adobe's end.

Is there a way to speed up the installment of Adobe Typekit fonts? I am waiting for minutes and depending on the font, it goes quicker, doesnt install at all or takes restarts... What is going on here?

Same here. Takes forever to download a tiny font file. Adobe sure knows how "fix" things that weren't broken. This is very detrimental to the workflow and lets be honest....I want an "activate all" button to click before i go to bed so I NEVER have to wait again.

I agree, this is taking forever to just install a font. Unbelievably slow. I have high-speed internet up to 1000 mps download time and this is nuts. It used to be easy to activate fonts, now it's a real PITA. It slows work production down big time. Adobe fix this issue!

Having read on a previous topic that a missing font for an asset can cause this delay, I have gone through all my assets and also deleted all assets containing text, but no change to loading times with these actions

Please try the advice already posted and let us know how it goes. I'm not aware of any issues of slow loading caused by the number of installed fonts, so it will likely be something else causing this.

I have updated GPU and chipset drivers and loaded affinity designer with hardware acceleration and without hardware acceleration. No visible difference in loading times (still well over 1 minute being stuck with the "font loading" message)

Some CJK fonts can have well over 20,000 characters which can take awhile to load.

Some TTC files with multiple fonts can also be slow to load.

Any OTC files? Those can currently confuse many applications (some just choke).

Hmmm... have not checked APub to see what it does, should do that.

You could try un-installing some suspect fonts.

Such as those described above.

And free fonts found out in the ether which can often be broken, and cause odd issues like slow loading.

Just disabling the fonts in Windows does not work.

Scan your fonts folders to see if there are any duplicate font files with number suffixes.

Such as FontName_01.ttf which is a duplicate of FontName.ttf

These duplicates can confuse Affinity applications.

They are caused by installing another version while a font file is locked by some application.

Check both the Windows Fonts folder and your User Fonts folder.

So, I have looked into the installed fonts and did not see any specific issues. I have de-installed most non-system fonts to the point that I only have 176 fonts installed per the attached screenshot. The affinity apps still take 1 minute and 10 seconds to load with the splash screen indicating that the program is loading fonts.

Having exhausted all options I could think of, I took the decision of upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11. This has reloaded the base fonts and I was hoping that any OS related issue that may be causing the long font loading time would be resolved.

Resetting Fills, Brushes Object styles and Text styles in the \Settings\Miscellaneous menu did not solve it for me. It seems that the Beta 2.2.01954 has quashed the problem, though. Looking greatly forward to the release of 2.2 ?

Same problem here. One solution Adobe offered was to deactivate all/reactivate. Well, that takes just about as long. Unacceptable. I activated 3 fonts about 10 minutes ago. Still not showing up in any apps.

It is now 2021 and this issue still seems to be a problem, Adobe are you going to look into this rather than sending us links to pages that do not actually help the issue whatsoever? That would be fantastic.

Adobe, please take some time out of your day to look into this issue. This issue has been an issue for going on 2 years now and it's very frustrating and very inconvenient. We undestand this issue does not interfere with your workflow, but it does mine and many other who especially work in a more fast paced environment. PLEASE take the time and help us out here.

Adobe why are you ignoring this issue? Being in prepress production I have always had font issues, but this delay in activating fonts is the worst, we don't have time to sit in and wait for fonts to work. What a joke.

I'm here for this comment! I've been using the same font for a big project with lots and lots of printed pieces, and every time I turn on Adobe, my font is turned off and I have to spend 30min to 1 hour trying to fix. I just need to be able to open Adobe, make a quick change, and move on with my day. Instead I'm spending a ridiculous amount of time on a stinkin' FONT.

We've had the same issue for years too.. so does all of my employees. This is obviously an issue for all adobe users, not sure why adobe ignores the issue. We're forced to find alternative fonts because adobe fonts just take too long for us.

I contacted Adobe support about this issue a few days ago, they acted like it was the first they heard of it, wanted to know if I was using adobefonts.com. then wanted me to deactivate all my fonts and reactivate them again, not happening Adobe, I just left the conversation.

When one company dominates an industry, they can afford to drag their feet on things like this. Seriously considering Affinity (for more reasons than just this). Fix, or at least acknowledge this problem please Adobe.

2. The log folder is hidden by default, so make sure that hidden folders and files are visible. Under the Organize menu, select Preferences and then the View tab. Choose the "Show hidden files, folders, & drives." option, then click Apply to confirm the changes.

Whilst I understand why you need the information to try to fix this, who honestly has the time to keep doing tech support on their own machines for every issue. It's not just this, there are so many bugs across the whole suite that kill workflow to the point it reflects on my work because I am working far too slowly, and it is costing money because it's eating into my own time - clients aren't interested in paying for time spent troubleshooting the software we designers already pay through the nose for, nor should they be.

The onus isn't on us to constantly do workarounds to make the software work, it should be on you Adobe to get it right before releasing constantly broken features onto us and then scrambling to patch them up when enough people are fed up.

Adobe, you are EXHAUSTING!

Depends on how many glyph's you do and how much kerning you need to make. If you design a font with only the English character set punctuation and no need for kerning (or autokeerning) then you can get away with a few hours.

Indeed I have designed a font with the constraint that I could only use a text editor (think notepad) and a command line call to font forge for the task. Using only my mobile phone* (sic). By limiting myself to uppercase characters +, -, and diameter sign it took me about 2 hours (except that the S was a bit horrible so i had to redesign it) to do this. It has horrible kerning but works.

This is close to what the font looked like at that point, the S is different but not much (S is the only character that was hard to make with the text editor and feedback time i had), some of the other glyphs have also very minor edits**:

Hard to believe but James Barnard certifies it here. Even being a relatively simple design and only one style, 24 hours I think it's too tight (and unhealthy :-)). But the step by step description is very interesting and can help to make a font design schedule.

In the nineties, each issue of the quarterly design magazine Emigre used to come with several new fonts designed exclusively, this means that Zuzana Licko and her team designed at least five fonts in three months. And of course, the magazine design. It's also true that most of these fonts have only one style.

I use to be guided by the time that the international typographic design competitions give to present works to the contest. The most relevant give a period between six months and a year. What I think is quite correct and even exaggerated.