Adobe Font Folio

**Adobe Font Folio** was a typeface library distributed by Adobe Systems.

## Product history

* The folio was first announced under the name of **Adobe Type Folio** at the Seybold Desktop Publishing Conference in September 1988. It was available from November 1988 with over 300 PostScript Type 1 fonts produced by Adobe on a 45MB external hard disk for US$9,600 that could be attached to a computer or a PostScript printer with a SCSI port, such as the LaserWriter IINTX.

* In 1990, Font Folio shipped with 650 fonts on a CD-ROM (bundled with an external NEC CD-ROM drive) for $15,900 or a 80MB external hard disk for $16,900 that could be attached to a PostScript printer with a SCSI port.

* In 1992, Font Folio shipped with 250 Adobe Type Library packages on a 105MB external hard disk for $14,000 that could be attached to a computer or PostScript printer with a SCSI port.

* By 1994, the Font Folio CD-ROM contained about 1,800 Type 1 fonts.

* Version 6.0 of the CD-ROM was released in March 1994 with 360 Adobe Type Library packages, containing over 1,800 to 1,900 Type 1 fonts.
* Version 7.0 of the CD-ROM was released on March 13, 1995 with over 2,000 Type 1 fonts.
* Version 7.1 of the CD-ROM was released in 1996 with over 2,100 Type 1 fonts.
* Version 8.0 of the CD-ROM was released in September 1997 with over 2,300 Type 1 fonts.
* Version 9.0 of the CD-ROM was released in January 2001 with a peak of over 2,750 fonts, mostly Type 1 and introducing some OpenType versions for $8,999.

Adobe Font Folio 7.0Adobe Font Folio 8.0Adobe Font Folio 9.0
### Transition to OpenType

On April 29, 2002, Adobe announced that it had converted its entire typeface library to OpenType.

* Version 10, known as the "OpenType Edition", was released on August 11, 2003 with over 2,200 fonts, now exclusively in OpenType format.
* Version 11 was released on September 5, 2007 with over 2,300 OpenType fonts for $2,599.
* Version 11.1, was released in November 2011 with over 2,400 OpenType fonts for $2,999.

Adobe Font Folio (10) OpenType EditionAdobe Font Folio 11
## References

1. ↑ Adobe Type Folio for Mac Announced at Seybold Conference, *InfoWorld*, p.6. 1988-09-19.
2. ↑ Type Library on Hard Disk by Coyne & Blanchard, *Communication Arts '88 Design Annual* vol.30, p.232. 1988.
3. ↑ Adobe Systems Inc., *Editor & Publisher* vol.122, p.28. 1989.
4. ↑ Volume 5, *Microtimes*, p.53. 1988.
5. ↑ Adobe Fonts Ship, *InfoWorld*. 1990-12-03.
6. ↑ Monotone Electronics Prepress Systems (MEPS), *Dunn Report: Electronic Publishing & Prepress Systems* vol.8, p.226. 1990.
7. ↑ Macintosh products, *ComputerWorld* p.38. 1992-03-30.
8. ↑ Matching Fonts Across Platforms, *PC World* vol.12. 1994.
9. ↑ Adobe Font Folio by Adobe Systems, *Adobe Catalog Spring 1994*, p.25. 1994.
10. ↑ Acrobat Reader per DOS e Adobe Font Folio 6.0 (Italian), *MCmicrocomputer* n.138, p.76. 1994-03.
11. ↑ Adobe's Font Folio gets 500 new fonts by Brad Gibson, *Macworld*. 2001-02-05.
12. ↑ Adobe Converts Entire Type Library Into OpenType, Adobe Systems. 2002-04-29. Archived 2002-05-01.

## See also

* Adobe Type On Call, a more affordable type library in which most of the fonts were encrypted and the buyer unlocked them through a pay-as-you-go method.

## External links

* Adobe Font Folio at Adobe
	+ Adobe Font Folio 11.1 (archived 2011-11-20, 2012-08-24)
		- Adobe Font Folio 11.1 list (PDF, 2012-08-06)
	+ Adobe Font Folio 11 (archived 2007-09-20)
	+ Adobe Font Folio: OpenType Edition (2003-10-01, 2006-05-02)
	+ Adobe Font Folio 9.0 (archived 2001-06-08)
	+ Adobe Font Folio 8.0 (archived 1998-02-04, 2000-01-19)
	+ Adobe Font Folio 7.1 (archived 1996-10-27)
* Adobe Font Folio at Wikipedia