Font styles not showing up for all installed and adobe fonts

For anyone out there years later searching, and finding none of the "solutions" that everyone offers is working...

Check to see if this might be a variable weight font. Uninstall it, and install the STATIC versions of the font. I had two google fonts with this problem and noticed they both had variable and static options for download. On two different Macs with two different operating systems, they both started working when I reinstalled the *static* versions.
(and now I'm going to cut and paste this into all the threads that failed me 🙂

Do you see the search box above?

No need to post the same question if it has been answered 50 times already.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate/impossible-to-change-font-weight/m-p/10724283#M198481