They are really pretty script fonts, you will love them!
It isn’t a disaster. It will be alright. Give it an hour or so to setting down. So far my products look fine!
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Their latest font news https://community.zazzle.com/t5/creator-news/continual-evolution-of-our-font-library/ba-p/31062
In their latest news they also said:
”We’re confident the automagic will meet your needs but in case it doesn’t, let us know at team.designer@zazzle.com.”
I am very wary of it. I seriously do not want an auto migration, I want an opt out and choose myself. No font can adequately look like another. Just leave products with Retired Fonts as is. KristenJ describes how products with Blooming text appears now in her above replies “I can edit text on existing products that use Blooming Elegant Sans, and publish with it, but can’t select it when creating new text.” This is better than them selecting some random font for us. We are the designers, not them.
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OH NO!!
Maritime and Holiday picture fonts are on some of my best selling designs. They do not show under the all-fonts listing.
Maybe it didn’t go away, maybe it’s migrating. Don’t you think that the team would have compensated for the ligatures that so many people used. I am still in trust and calm mode, I just went through my top 500 products and they all look fine, even the ones with blooming elegant and sugar plums.
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What. WHAT. I’m not understanding how the literally most popular font may be gone entirely.
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I bet they don’t replace it and the listing is just in flux. If they did replace it, they will do it right with ligatures etc. Why would they want chaos in so many products that make them money? Personally I hated that font, so I didn’t use it all that much. I did use Sugar Plums a lot though. We will see.
Ok, I have the new fonts now. Actually, some nice script ones. Blooming Elegant is still sticking on my published products. Hope it stays there.
And do any of the new script fonts have swashes on them?
Can we PLEASE have a moderator comment on all this?
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You can google the fonts and find about about ligatures and swashes.
From the announcement: "But not to worry about the removal part; for as many designs as possible, we have already anticipated your concerns and will be transitioning the designs for you automatically. We’re confident the automagic will meet your needs but in case it doesn’t, let us know at team.designer@zazzle.com."
This would seem to indicate that they’re not going to leave the deleted fonts on existing designs. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens when they migrate to the new fonts. The thing is that pretty much all of the removed fonts are ones that designers use specifically because they contain special characters, so choosing a similar font might work if you’ve only used standard characters, but for me, at least, that isn’t how I’ve used those fonts.
Blooming Elegant: The whole point of using this font is for the leading and trailing swashes - I’ve checked all of the new fonts and none of them will replace the swashes. They either put a completely different character into that spot or leave it blank.
Holiday Symbols & Maritme Symbols - those are used like clipart. Are they going to replace those characters with similar clip art? I doubt it.
Sugar Plums Symbols - those are used for creating WordArt designs - how can they possibly come up with an adequate replacement? Doesn’t seem possible.
Anyhow, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but I’m not at all optimistic. If these were fonts that are primarily used with the standard characters it wouldn’t be a big issue to swap out the font, but they aren’t.
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I’m sure it will take awhile to migrate the new chosen replacement for Blooming Elegance. It’s going to take patience for things to change. As the Mermaid said… you have to go on Google to find glyphs for fonts. Zazzle never gives us that information. We had to do that for Blooming Elegance back in the day.
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I think I found something that was migrated. It’s an older, popular product that used Blooming Elegant Sans (the all caps). It looked normal in the marketplace, but when I opened it, I found that the sans serif had been changed to a rounded font called Dongle. It’s not a great replacement and doesn’t have the same feel or gravitas at all. I’m hoping that this isn’t the official decision and something can still be salvaged, because this is sadly going to undo years of work.
And yes, I’ve already emailed Team Creator.
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I’ve found one of mine switched, also. Just like yours, my product was switched to Dongle for the sans serif. I also used the blooming elegant script on this product, and it was switched to Morgana, and it does still have swashes on the front and back of the word. So I’m guessing the swashes at least are being retained.
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Morgana looks like it could be a decent sub - whew! Dongle, though, is really bad. Probably gonna take me the rest of my life to edit all of those to (I think) Futura Med. Time for a Depp Mega Pint of wine, lol.
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I just tried manually switching one of my Blooming Elegant Script designs to Morgana and it’s a mess! The font is HUGE and the front and back swashes don’t match at all. Was your text re-sized to account for this?
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Sorry, I’m not sure if the text was resized! This was literally the only one of this product type I had made in this design (It was post-it notes) so I don’t have anything to compare it to. If I notice any other products that I can get more info from about the font size, I’ll let you know.
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I used Blooming Elegant Sans quite a bit. Can Zazzle at least tell us which font will be replacing that? It’s not a script and I thought that was all we had to worry about right now. It still seems to be showing as Blooming Elegant right now - and even indicating that in the customizer even though that font isn’t listed.
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Looks like the replacement is Dongle 😬
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The font sunglow has swashes and it’s a nice font to replace blooming elegant.
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Thanks @kristenj ! Would’ve been nice to know from Zazzle.
Good luck on all your swapping 
and cheers 
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