InDesign doesn't recognize installed fonts all the time

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March 19, 2018
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InDesign is driving me insane.

For work, our primary font is Interstate OTF (Regular, Bold, Black, Light, Italic). I work in a mac environment (iMac 27" 5k, macOS High Sierra, Adobe CC 2018), and have the font family installed in Font Book. The family works fine in Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects. However, InDesign is fussy. Sometimes I can use it fine with no issues. Other times, "Bold" just won't be in my list of usable fonts.

So, I took others advice from this forum, and installed the fonts in the InDesign fonts folder. Same result. Please help!

Correct answer Eugene Tyson

Can you explain in a way that someone very new on InDesign like me can understand? What does mean "package the file"?

Thank you.

You use

File>Package

This gathers all the information related to the file.

Including

InDesign File

Optional PDF file

Links

Fonts

And creates and folder containing all the elements related to the project that are part of that InDesign file.

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Bill Silbert

Community Expert

Have you tried placing the font in the User font folder which can be found through Macintosh HD>User>Home>Library>Fonts? On many Macs the Home folder library is hidden. To get to it: Launch a Finder Window in column view and click on your home folder. With the Option Key pressed choose Library from the Finder Go Menu. Within the Library folder find the folder called Fonts. See screen shot:

This font folder should supercede all others.

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jacynao19770033Author

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Hi Bill,

Thank you for the quick reply. The font family is installed in that folder, and InDesign is still not recognizing it as being installed.

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