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stbartels
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April 7, 2019
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InDesign splitting up font family

  • April 7, 2019
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I just setup a new iMac and when installing Barlow & Barlow Condensed from Google Fonts, InDesign split the font families up. While researching this, I see that this does happen, but the thing is that the same fonts were perfectly fine on my old machine—all 18 weights of each were listed under the main family name. But on my new machine they are split up between about 7 different family names. On a side note, Illustrator does list them correctly. Any ideas???

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    Steve Werner
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    Steve WernerCommunity Expert
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    April 7, 2019

    I don't think InDesign does it.

    I think it does it based on the font associations the designer have built into the font family. Chances are, the old computer had a different version of the font than the one you installed.

    But maybe I'm wrong. If a font guru reading this knows, please correct me. There are typography forums and websites where someone could probably answer if you don't find out here.

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    stbartelsAuthor
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    April 7, 2019

    That's what I had thought too, but I also tried installing the versions from my old computer and got the same results. I just seems odd that they show up correctly in Illustrator, but not InDesign.

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