: How do I transfer use of Typekit fonts from one designer to another? This wording of this question might be confusing so I'll try the best I can so that everybody can understand what I am

@Rambettina927

I want to start off agreeing with all the comments so far - your school should definitely have a subscription to Creative Cloud that includes Typekit. However, I understand your dilemma as my university did not provide it either.
Possible solution... Have you tried packaging the InDesign file? Usually that creates a handy little "Fonts" folder within the package that includes all the fonts used in that document. I only recently started using Typekit so I haven't tried this myself, but I would think that would work.

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@Margaret771

You can do something which do not need money to make your work more likely to


stay around
be reusable and
be available for research.


Consider to do the following:


export your design as InDesign version independent format
make a package that contains all linked material
make two PDFs - one for long time archiving with all fonts as curves or bitmaps, another with all texts easily extractable (a plain text file with no or minimal markup about "which is a title, which is a story, which is a text for a picture" may do as well because there's the other PDF to read)
export some important and "face defining" design elements out as images (all fonts curved or bitmap) for easy reuse
find some style compatible freely available substitute fonts. This gives to you the first voice in choosing the substitutes

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@Speyer780

You can't transfer the fonts without cheating, breaking the law, or paying for them.

The school should have a license. If the school can't afford it, then you as the designer should have asked about this and chosen free fonts to avoid exactly this situation. It's your responsibility as the designer to make yourself aware of the cost and copyright issues around all materials you use. The client (school, in this case) can choose what it wants, but that should be an informed decision.

My suggestion to you is either (a) convince the school to get a Creative Cloud/Typekit subscription, which it should be able to do at a reduced educational price, or (b) start redesigning now with free fonts which have no commercial license restrictions, so that when you leave, it's no longer an issue.

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