The current Adobe Creative Cloud suite comes with a ton of fonts. While researching the easiest/cheapest way to get a selection of fonts to use in projects and ad designs (other than the time honoured tradition of stealing them), I realized that if I am already paying for Creative Cloud then the 100+ fonts they offer in TypeKit for both print and web design were probably enough.

The issue comes when you realize that the fonts disappear when the subscription ends and, while the theory is that I have to be paying for InDesign to open old projects anyway, not being able to archive the fonts makes me nervous. And it occurred to me for a computer to be able to use the fonts they had to actually be on my computer somewhere…didn’t they? So I went looking for a solution and lo & behold I came across dylanvalade.com/post/74649521957/how-to-find-synced-typekit-fonts-on-your-computer.

Essentially the solution is to go to Macintosh HD/Users/YOURNAME/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CoreSync/plugins/livetype/.r/ and your fonts will be in this .r folder named FONTID.otf. Of course this is a hidden directory so for OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion (contrary to Dylan’s instructions) you must go to Terminal and type in:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE && killall Finder

To later make them all invisible again use:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE && killall Finder

Then it’s the long process he describes to move and rename all the files. Finder won’t let you change the folder or file names prefixed with a dot like a normal file. So after you copy the .r folder to a safe place on your computer, right click the copy of .r and select Get Info. Change the copied .r folder name to something else by expanding the Filename & Extension option. Then use Get Info to rename each font you need to save offline. The name of the font can be copied (using cmd-C) from the Get Info window just above the Name & Extension box.

Simple…sort of.

Addendum

Once you find the invisible files (cmd+shft+.) you can use some thing like transtype to convert them and that renames them and makes them visible.