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.
Fonts Included with:
Some interesting observations from this:
- Photoshop CS5 includes 3 fonts not included with Photoshop CS4, but it is also missing 3 fonts that were included with Photoshop CS4!
- Although Photoshop Elements 8 includes far fewer fonts than its professional brothers, it includes the Myriad Web Pro font set in addition to the standard Myriad Pro, while the CS versions only include Myriad Pro itself
- The CS versions of Photoshop both installed all of their fonts in the standard font folder:
C:\Windows\Fonts
- However, Photoshop and Premiere Elements 8 installed all of the fonts except for Myriad Web Pro in a special Adobe folder:
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,
Nice article, but the font lists should be updated for Elements 10, the latest release.
Thanks! I’ll try to update it once Photoshop CS6 is out, and put the fonts from the newest Adobe apps all around.
Very nice and helpful article! Could you please help me and answer me one question:
What styles does the Myriad Pro include in Photoshop Elements 8?
I have already searched the web for hours, but can´t find an answer. I even called the Adobe support, but they can´t tell me either.
Thank you in advance!!
Sure, and sorry for the slow reply! I just checked, and Photoshop Elements 8 includes the following styles of Myriad Pro:
- Condensed
- Condensed Italic
- Bold Condensed
- Bold Condensed Italic
- Regular
- Italic
- Bold
- Bold Italic
Great! Thank you very much!!
Can i find a difference between fonts installed at the time of installation of the product and the fonts purchased and then installed or a list of fonts which comes with each product of ADOBE.
Actually, all of these fonts listed are ones that come, included, with the Adobe Suites listed. You’ll get them when you install the trial or the full purchased version; they’re the same.