Where does Adobe Fonts (aka Typkekit aka Creative Cloud Fonts) store fonts on my Mac?

Question

When a font is activated through Adobe Fonts, where does it get stored on my computer?

And why doesn't it show up in Font Book?

Background: I recently ran into a situation where I was trying to verify that my CSS @font-family tags were working correctly. I opened Font Book to verify that I did NOT have the font already installed, then proceeded to open my HTML file in Chrome. Everything looked great! But it turned out that I DID have the font installed via Adobe Fonts. So my test was invalid and unfortunately my tags were not setup correctly.

Answer 1

The fonts are located on your machine in the following folders:

Mac: /Users/<your user name>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync/plugins/livetype/.r

Windows: C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CoreSync\plugins\livetype\r

You likely need to make sure you can see hidden/invisible files.

Answer 2

I work at Adobe Fonts and I'm happy to clear things up here. I'm sorry you ran into this.

First, when fonts are activated/installed with Adobe Fonts, they won't show up in Font Book as these fonts managed through our site and Creative Cloud.

You can remove or temporarily deactivate them to make sure you're seeing the web fonts: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/troubleshoot-font-activation.html#5ToggletheAdobeFontssetting

Also, when possible, we use a different font-family name format to avoid this very issue. You can always check to make sure you're using our font-family name in your CSS/web project to be sure: https://fonts.adobe.com/my_fonts#web_projects-section

I hope this helps!

Cheers, Ben

Answer 3

To copy all Adobe fonts to your Downloads directory, and automatically rename them to something meaningful, you can check out my repo: https://github.com/Kalaschnik/adobe-fonts-revealer

The script is working like this:

Answer 4

I found the files in the core sync folder, and I copied my fonts to use in a local environment.

Few hours later, this folder has disappeared without any reason. I tried to get display the hidden files in Mac, didn't work.

To get the file, I used bash cdcommand and opened it in finder. Hope that helps. ...cd "Application Support" ... open livetype.