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What Fonts Are Included With Photoshop CS4, CS5, and Elements 8?

Update: Check out our latest article with the fonts in Creative Suite 6 and Elements 10 too!

Have you ever wondered which fonts are included with Adobe Photoshop?  I’ve recently been comparing Photoshop CS4, CS5, and Elements 8 with trial versions installed in XP on VMware Workstation.  This actually works very good for looking over the feature differences between each edition.  One thing I was especially curious about was which fonts Adobe included in each product.  I searched the internet and Adobe’s site, but couldn’t find anywhere that listed the fonts that were included with these products.  Microsoft regularly lists the fonts they included with different editions of Windows and Office online, but I could find no such list from Adobe.  So here it is … the list of new fonts added to my virtual machine after installing the trial versions of Photoshop CS4, CS5, and Elements 8.  Each of the fonts are linked to that font’s page on Adobe’s website, though I couldn’t find links for several of the fonts.

Update:  I now also added the fonts included with Adobe Premiere Elements 8, since this is commonly purchased with Photoshop Elements 8 in the Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 8 Bundle. And, interestingly enough, it adds almost all of the fonts included with the full versions of Photoshop, so you’ll be missing out on even less fonts.  Actually, it even includes 2 fonts, Courier Std and Premiere, that aren’t included in the CS editions of Photoshop.  Nice :)

Fonts Included with:

Photoshop CS4

Photoshop CS5

Photoshop Elements 8

Premiere Elements 8

  Adobe Arabic    
Adobe Caslon Pro Adobe Caslon Pro Adobe Caslon Pro Adobe Caslon Pro
Adobe Garamond Pro Adobe Garamond Pro   Adobe Garamond Pro
Bell Gothic Std      
Birch Std Birch Std   Birch Std
Blackoak Std Blackoak Std   Blackoak Std
Brush Script Std Brush Script Std   Brush Script Std
Chaparral Pro Chaparral Pro   Chaparral Pro
  Charlemagne Std   Charlemagne Std
Cooper Black Std Cooper Black Std   Cooper Black Std
      Courier Std
Eccentric Std      
Adobe Fangsong Std      
Giddyup Std Giddyup Std   Giddyup Std
Adobe Heiti Std Adobe Heiti Std   Adobe Heiti Std
  Adobe Hebrew    
Hobo Std Hobo Std   Hobo Std
Adobe Kaiti Std Adobe Kaiti Std    
Kozuka Mincho Pro Kozuka Mincho Pro   Kozuka Mincho Pro
Kozuka Gothic Pro Kozuka Gothic Pro   Kozuka Gothic Pro
Letter Gothic Std Letter Gothic Std    
Lithos Pro Lithos Pro Lithos Pro Lithos Pro
Mesquite Std Mesquite Std   Mesquite Std
Adobe Ming Std Adobe Ming Std   Adobe Ming Std
Minion Pro Minion Pro Minion Pro Minion Pro
Adobe Myungjo Std Adobe Myungjo Std   Adobe Myungjo Std
Myriad Pro Myriad Pro Myriad Pro Myriad Pro
    Myriad Web Pro Myriad Web Pro
Nueva Std Nueva Std Nueva Std Nueva Std
OCR-A Std OCR-A Std   OCR-A Std
Orator Std Orator Std   Orator Std
Poplar Std Poplar Std Poplar Std Poplar Std
Prestige Elite Std Prestige Elite Std   Prestige Elite Std
Rosewood Std Rosewood Std   Rosewood Std
Adobe Song Std Adobe Song Std   Adobe Song Std
Stencil Std Stencil Std   Stencil Std
Tekton Pro Tekton Pro Tekton Pro Tekton Pro
Trajan Pro Trajan Pro Trajan Pro Trajan Pro

 

Some interesting observations from this:

C:\Windows\Fonts

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts

So, if you have Photoshop Elements and want to use your Adobe fonts in other applications such as Microsoft Word, copy them from this folder to the Windows\Fonts folder.

Conclusion

I first encountered Adobe’s Minion Pro and Myriad Pro fonts on Adobe.com’s Buzzword, and was disappointed to find that I didn’t have these fonts when I tried to open a document saved with these fonts in Word on my desktop.  So it’s exciting to see these fonts included with all editions of Photoshop, including the cheaper Elements editions.  But I was disappointed to find that none of these include the popular Helvetica font, since it isn’t included in Windows, either.

And one other thing … if you want any of the fonts included in Elements, you’re likely going to come out cheaper by buying it than by buying the fonts individually, since each font individually usually costs $30 or more! Plus, if you buy the Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Elements 8 Bundle, you’ll end up with almost all the fonts from Photoshop CS plus a couple extras. :)

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