AIGA & Adobe sell 25 typefaces/500 fonts for $149

[budafist]

AIGA and Adobe partner to develop font collection for design education
NEW YORK, March 13, 2008.

AIGA announces a comprehensive and affordable font collection for teaching and learning about typography. Adobe® Font Folio® Education Essentials software was developed by Adobe in collaboration with college-level AIGA design educators to serve the needs of students in professional programs of study and higher-education faculty by providing nearly 500 fonts in OpenType® format. Adobe supports these fonts with online information about their development and history.

This product was developed by Adobe specifically to help design students afford and acquire a license to a range of fonts in a single package to minimize their costs, while providing a full family of fonts to assist educators in teaching typography.

AIGA and Adobe have long worked together in advancing the practice of design, supporting the use of technology across creative industries and highlighting the impact of design on the economy and society. Many of the fonts in Font Folio Education Essentials are classics and have been selected for their long-standing importance to design, while others extend the connotative range of formal attributes demanded by contemporary design problems. “Font Folio Education Essentials allows students to make appropriate type choices for the context and content of their work and helps faculty to teach the history of design,” said Richard Grefé, executive director of AIGA, “The collection is a true foundation for design students and educators alike.”

Adobe® Font Folio Education Essentials is available for pre-order (shipping by late April) to students and those affiliated with educational institutions at the Adobe® Education Store, North America, for $149. For more information, visit www.adobe.com/education/products/fontfolioeducationessentials (http://www.adobe.com/education/products/fontfolioeducationessentials/).

It's a bit misleading. 500 fonts means 25 typefaces. Unvers for example has 27 fonts. But the list is a solid one and it looks like good value to me.

Fonts are

Adobe Caslon Pro
Adobe Jenson Pro Opticals
Arno Pro Opticals
Avenir LT Std
Bell Gothic Std
Bernhard Std.
Bickham Script Pro
Chaparral Pro Opticals
Cochin LT Std
DIN Std
Futura Std
Garamond Premier Pro Opticals
Gill Sans Std
Goudy Std
Grotesque MT Std
Helvetica LT Std
ITC New Baskerville
ITC Officina Sans Std
Kepler Opticals Collection
Myriad Pro
Rosewood Std
Trade Gothic LH Std
Trajan Pro
Univers LT Std
Utopia Std Opticals

[urstwile]

Aren't those already included if you own the creative suite? They are in CS2. Unless they're going for students who don't have the creative suite? I'm confused.

[morea]

^ my thoughts too.

I was thinking of pulling an Eliot Spitzer to spring for the fonts, but then I realized that I already have most - if not all - of them already.

[budafist]

Oh, I didn't think of that. I have them already but didn't realise that they came with CS.

[SurfPark]

Kind of a tricky technique. Most students that would need these typefaces probably already have them. I wonder who is requesting this product.

[budafist]

Maybe nobody requested it. Maybe they thought they might just "give away" something that most people already have?

[urstwile]

I think that I remember hearing that the student versions of the creative suite don't include the fonts, so perhaps this is the market they're going after?