Anastasia - Troy, MI

Site - Replace Cinzel everywhere with Trajan like their logo

Assigned to
Blake Stapleton, Web Designer  at Diocesan Blake S. Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan Kyle S.
Notes
They noticed that it wasn't Trajan. They want Trajan, not Cinzel

Comments & Events

Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
And how would they like to include this Adobe Font? Do they have the required license and assets?

Further, is this going to be provided by a CDN or service like Google Fonts, or will this be on our server and sent to every user to kill their throughput and skyrocket data usage while substantially slowing the initial load of their site (which causes surprisingly high bounce rates)?

Or is this just another instance of them asking to know the exact state of Schrödinger's cat without observation?
Cody Armock, Web Content Specialist at Diocesan
They have the license and assets for it from what they said in the training
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
When can I have access to those, and are they aware of the significant performance hit that comes from serving their own fonts like this?
Cody Armock, Web Content Specialist at Diocesan
I doubt it and Blake Stapleton, Web Designer  at Diocesan Blake  may have it. Otherwise, I can ask for it.
Blake Stapleton, Web Designer  at Diocesan
I don't have it. Believe me, I spoke about adobe licensing with them about fonts and this via email and over the phone a number of times. They say they have their own Adobe CC account or something to that effect. I would ask for it and go from there.
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
Cody Armock, Web Content Specialist at Diocesan Cody , please follow up with them about this. I remember discussing with Blake Stapleton, Web Designer  at Diocesan Blake numerous times that he'd talked with them ad nauseam about this.

If I were a betting man, they don't have the assets and license to use Trajan as a web font. I'm willing to wager.
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
Cody Armock, Web Content Specialist at Diocesan Cody , in addition to that .ttf file, I need to see their license that says they are authorized to use this font for web use.

Blake Stapleton, Web Designer  at Diocesan Blake can confirm the importance of not stealing intellectual property and digital assets.

Ethically, I am not comfortable adding this font to their site unless and until I can confirm that they have the appropriate license.
Cody Armock, Web Content Specialist at Diocesan
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan Kyle  I will send another email to Brenda tomorrow about this. Thanks.
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
We're going to need them to setup a Web Project through their Adobe Creative Cloud. If they don't want to do this, I can do it with their credentials, but I'd have to track it as Build.

As far as I understand Adobe's Font Licensing (https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/user-guide.html/fonts/using/font-licensing.ug.html) and Adobe Fonts Service Additional Terms (https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Fonts_Additional_Terms_en_US_20200416.pdf), merely using the ttf file they provided would be a material breach of their Creative Cloud Agreement (I'd be happy to explicate exactly how, but I'll spare the analysis unless that's requested).

Whoever configures this process will have to pick the font family, variants and weights (it's slightly more complicated than embedding Google Fonts). I'll give a step-by-step process in the following comment.

P.S. I did a trial run of this with my own Adobe Account earlier, and I'm praying I don't get charged for anything I did. I'd just do this through for them with my account, but that would violate 3.3 of Adobe's Additional Terms (id.).
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
  1. Access https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/trajan.
  2. Click "</> Add to Web Project."
  3. Sign In.
  4. Add Fonts to the Web Project.
  5. Click "Done."
  6. Their My Adobe Fonts > Web Projects should look like this when they're done.
  7. I'll embed the HTML that's pointed at above into their websites header.
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
This has been added to a Web Project in their Adobe Creative Cloud, embeded, enqueued and updated in SCSS.

I'm comfortable marking this complete for now, but please reopen this task with specific directions if anything further is sought.
Kyle Sullivan, Web Development at Diocesan
Kyle Sullivan completed this to-do.