Extensis was founded in 1993 in Portland, Oregon with the goal of removing barriers that get in the way of creativity. Our roots started with core Apple enthusiasts using Adobe and Quark products and focused on the creation of plug-ins.

In the mid-90s, Extensis was the largest plug-in developer in the world adding photo cataloging software, a creative content website, font management, and digital asset management to its product suite. This growth led to Extensis being sold to Japanese content-management company Celartem Inc. in 2002.

In 2005, the plug-in product line was sold allowing Extensis to focus entirely on font management and digital asset management technologies. Extensis continued to innovate and was awarded over 20 font patents throughout its existence. Extensis expanded its global presence into the UK, France, Germany, and Australia.

In 2018, sister company LizardTech, also owned by Celartem Inc., moves its state-of-the-art software solutions for compressing and distributing massive, high-resolution geospatial data into the Extensis suite of products. Extensis and LizardTech customers now have access to additional solutions for maximizing the value of their digital assets.

Used by over 5,000 companies and more than 100,000 professionals, Extensis continues to make the process of leveraging digital assets, fonts, and images easy. Ultimately, we want to help you do more of what matters to you and your business.

Adobe may be the design tool...

But the creation of any client project is full of risk:

• Were the right client fonts used?

• Were all the assets properly licensed?

• Did a team member change something when they collaborated?

• Did the remote designers use the fonts and assets assigned by the client?

• Do the printers have the right instructions?

With multiple creatives and assets contributing to client work, there are many points of risk introduced in any project.

Connect Fonts & Creative Assets

Connect your client fonts and creative assets/projects in one easy platform!

• Easily use team-assigned and approved fonts
• One simple location for team project assets
• Team tagging and editing
• Metadata search for Postscript font types in assets
• Incorporate assets outside of Adobe in one place
• Speed up font tests in Adobe font panels
• Quickly share projects internally and externally for review & approval
• Stop paying for a cloud storage tool – it's included in Connect!
• In Beta – connection and reporting on all Adobe documents tied to creatives

Connect Fonts, Creative Assets, Assess Risk, & Assign Fixes

PostScript Type 1 fonts no longer work in Adobe CC 2023. Using them in assets will cause issues in production!

• Everything in the Connect platform, plus:
  • Immediate notice when a designer adds an asset with a PST1 font
• Assign work to designers to fix fonts
• See recommended font substitutions that exist in your library
• Assign recommendations to your designers for any asset
• Realtime reports when risk is added to your team assets
• In Beta: real-time notice when unlicensed fonts are used in assets – notification & assigned actions

Typical Customers

Adobe Subscribers

• Creative Departments // Entertainment & Media // Creative Agencies // Print & Packaging // Consumer Goods // Advertising // Marketing & Communications // Brand Consulting Services

• True Edit edit files directly from Connect and know your team is the most recent version in your project

• Font License Report track any license in a simple report

• Auto activation and quick design panels for faster Adobe work

• Document Tracking: Tracks information fonts used in files.

• Coming Soon: Full agency Adobe document reporting

• Access to font foundries where you can buy font licenses directly & incorporate into the platform

• Easy-to-manage client fonts that aren’t Adobe fonts

• Remote team collaboration and insights at no extra cost

• Fast freelancer incorporation to team environment

Get Organized

• Instead of having fonts scattered across various folders, servers, and the cloud, bring them together in one central place.
• Organize your team’s font access by project, style, foundry, client, or tags.

Get Consistent

• No more fonts, font conflicts, or font errors. Fonts are easily assigned to teams, meaning the right fonts are always being used in the client project. Adobe assets open with no font errors = no IT tickets.
• Best yet, you’re all accessing the same assets from your project folders in one shared platform

Get Insights

• Run reporting on font usage and link with assets where fonts are embedded to make sure fonts are being used in the right ways with your remote teams

Keep Your Designers Out Of Risk

• Keep tabs on font licenses and be assured that the team is using the fonts assigned to them.
• Make PostScript Type 1 risk a thing of the past with intuitive reporting to connect to team members using the fonts and assign them to be fixed. Know that assets are licensed and compliant.

Drop DropBox

• Connect is the only platform focused on uniting any font or asset in a creative project, and giving meaningful insights to assure they’re compliant before they leave to print.
• Stop paying for an asset storage tool, when you can get more from a creative asset workflow tool

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