Adobe Fonts vs FontSpace
Adobe Fonts
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| Figure | Adobe Fonts | FontSpace |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Font Marketplaces | 9.1 (#1) | 8.6 (#4) |
| Spec score · Web Font Marketplaces | 9.0 (#1) | 8.5 (#4) |
| Browser support | Adobe says its hosted web fonts work in browsers supporting web fonts on macOS, Windows, Chrome OS, and most mobile browsers. | FontSpace says it supports modern browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Edge. |
| Font discovery | The font browser offers natural-language tags and filters for classification, x-height, width, weight, and language. | The site offers font browsing by styles, collections, popularity, and designer. |
| Support | Adobe's Fonts User Guide links users to the Fonts community and Adobe customer support. | The site’s help page covers downloads, installation, font formats, and licenses, and links to a contact page. |
Plans
Adobe Fonts
- Adobe Fonts FreeFree
- Adobe Fonts ProPrice not published
- Adobe Fonts StandardPrice not published
In their own words
Adobe Fonts
Adobe Fonts is a font library for desktop software and supported web projects. It offers more than 30,000 fonts from over 150 foundries, with catalog access depending on subscription. Users can browse typefaces and add individual styles or full families. The free plan costs nothing and provides a basic library of about 5,500 fonts; Adobe Fonts is also included with eligible Adobe subscriptions. Desktop fonts are added through the Creative Cloud desktop app for macOS and Windows and become available in desktop software. For websites, Web Projects provide controls for styles, weights, language subsets, OpenType features, and font-display settings, with publishing through Adobe’s embed code. Adobe states that its library fonts are licensed for personal and commercial use. Web fonts must use the supplied embed code rather than self-hosting or uploading font files to a website platform. The license does not cover app embedding or server installation. Adding desktop fonts requires a named-user Adobe subscription in Creative Cloud.
FontSpace
FontSpace is a font directory and download site with more than 170,000 free fonts, including a collection of more than 19,000 fonts marked for commercial use. Visitors can browse by style, collection, popularity, or designer and adjust preview text, size, and foreground color. Download formats include OTF and TTF, and the catalog also lists WOFF and WOFF2. Its free text generator turns typed text into Unicode characters and symbols for copying elsewhere; some websites may display unsupported characters as boxes. FontSpace says each font is added and categorized by a person, then reviewed by a moderator for quality issues and license checks. The individual font license sets permitted use: personal-use licenses generally cover non-profit-making use, while commercial-use licenses address uses where someone may profit. The commercial-use collection is described as available for commercial projects with zero license fees, subject to each font’s license. FontSpace provides installation guidance for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and supports modern browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Edge. Cookies must be enabled to download fonts or register.