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Nov 12, 2025 9:57 PM UTC
Question

Selecting Material Symbols font immediately crashes InDesign 2026

We use Google's Material Symbols fonts for icons in our documents. This works fine in InDesign 2025, but if I open a file containing Material Symbols in InDesign 2026, it immediately crashes. The same goes for assigning the font to text within a document. Immediate crash.

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Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Community Expert
Jan 27, 2026 11:55 AM UTC

Maybe you could patch up to the current 21.2 (which is now widely available) and see if the problem persists?

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Mike Witherell
Participant
Nov 21, 2025 10:24 AM UTC

I have exactly the same issue, the fonts worked before and in other adobe apps are fine... except Indesign.

Mac OS
15.6.1 (24G90)

Indesign
21.0

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Barb Binder
Community Expert
Community Expert
Nov 13, 2025 2:10 AM UTC

Also, did you migrate preferences when you installed v21 (2026)? It's the default, unless you uncheck it.

 

~Barb

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leo.r
Community Expert
Community Expert
Nov 13, 2025 2:09 AM UTC

For a fuller picture, what's your operating system version?

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