I have been designing and developing a website for a client, who has recently employed a graphic designer produce a new logo and branding for a brochure and some print advertising.
The graphic designer supplied me with a style guide, which specifies the use of two commercial fonts: Portable E Oblique and Meta Plus. I do not own either of these fonts and the graphic designer says that she can't give them to me because they are commercial fonts.
The client has asked the graphic designer and she wasn't very helpful and has told him to google for the fonts...
First of all. Tell your client not to hire this woman again. It seems to me she's in a way trying to "trap" you and your client into coming back to her. Cause if she uses a font that more people than herself rely on, she better tell you where you can get it or not use it at all.
You just don't tell a client to Google for a font when making a graphical identity to him or her. It's not very nice in the first place, but since a font is perhaps the most important piece of a graphical identity, the client just have to be able to use it as well, which he/she of course can't if the font isn't to be found.
Found these but you can't seem to buy from here and I can't go any further, sorry. Took a damn sight more than a Google search to get this far.
The designer is Keito Soejima but it seems the font is only available on cd and its sold out everywhere so all I can suggest is e-mailing him soeji@kt.rim.or.jp Bear in mind he is Japanese though.