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P: Error with variable fonts in Photoshop

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November 22, 2020
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(From: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/error-with-variable-fonts-in-photoshop/idc-p/14069208#M90499)

On my computer with Windows 11 (untested on MacOS and Windows 10) I have this problem with variable fonts in Photoshop Beta (The fonts are downloaded from Google Fonts).

Only occurs with BOLD, EXTRABOLD and BLACK sizes.

I hope they fix it soon 🙂

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lottaf84726701

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The Outfit semibold and bold fonts behaves strangely in Photoshop. Other weights of the font work as they should. I have reinstalled the fonts and upgraded to the latest version of Photoshop. I work on PC. What could be the cause of the error?

jane-e

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@lottaf84726701

There is a primary thread in the Photoshop Beta forum where this issue with variable fonts has been reported:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-bugs/p-error-with-variable-fonts-in-photoshop/idi-p/14069372

Are you using the beta or released version of Photoshop?

Jane

NHD-Toronto

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Yes, I'm also having issues in Indesign with variable fonts including Monsterrat.

I have downloaded the font from Google and still having issues. I found if you have any Paragraph / Character Styles, open them and re-select the font. That fixed it for me.

TenTin

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Same here! But it changes from Black/Heavy to Thin!

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/the-variable-font-feature-doesn-t-work-correctly-in-24-7-25/idi-p/14176083

StopTheMadness

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Updated to Photoshop 25.0.0, OSX 13.5.2 and variable width font Outfit from Google fonts. Workaround currently is that if I close the file and open it again everything rendered correctly, as long as I dont change the font width in the textfield. At least I can export correct looking files even if editing is horrible.

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Victoria Parre

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Hello! I am having a similar problem with Sculpin Variable from Adobe fonts (https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/sculpin-variable). Bold and Black are not working properly on Photoshop, they work fine on Illustrator and other programs.
I tried Photoshop Beta, Photoshop 2024 and earlier versions and the same thing happens. Any ideas?

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Mo32821114877i

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Still having this issue for a while now and i am not really sure when this should be fixed!

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Victor Anton

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For Montserrat, adding the font from adobe fonts and using the creative cloud version on PS does solve the problem.

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Golfoy5EF3

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@Eduard32137602lmf8 Hi I'm also facing the same problem and I figured out a temporary solution, Just downgrade the latest version to the older version of the PS version (24.5) and your problem will be fixed until Adobe fixes this issue.