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ZerinaAkula
ZerinaAkula
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May 5, 2026
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Photoshop 27.6.0 (Mac) doesn't tell me what fonts are missing.

  • May 5, 2026
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I need to update a poster from 2016. I used a lot of PostScript fonts because they were industry standard. 

I have Photoshop (Mac) version 27.6.0. 

I open the psd file and get the prompt about some text layers need to be updated. I click “No.” and proceed to go to the text to see what font it was that I need to swap to an OpenType. 

I cannot, for the life of me, find the option to show the fonts missing in the psd file. I see the “warning sign” in the layer menu, but it doesn’t tell me what the font was.

“Manage Missing Fonts” does nothing when I click on it. There’s no menu/submenu, nothing. 

From doing some searching, it was revealed that “Photoshop doesn’t keep the name of the original font, it substitutes it with the default font.” You forced us to switch from PostScript fonts (didn’t even offer us compensation for the thousands we spent on industry standard fonts, but instead jacked up the price of CreativeCloud) and you don’t have functionality in the app to tell me what the font was that PSD swapped out for the default font?

So please, tell me there’s a way I can find out what fonts are missing in the document. InDesign does. Same company; I’d expect the same basic functionality with regards to finding and replacing fonts.

My five-minute change will now take five weeks, and that’s if I can figure out all of the fonts used.

 

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    Jeff Arola
    Community Expert
    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 5, 2026

    If you select the Type Tool and click on the various type layers does it list the font in the tool options bar?

     

    In the example below I used four PostScript Type 1 fonts and one True Type font Helvetica Neue.

    For four of the fonts i used the font name as the text.

    Created in Photoshop 7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger

     

    In Photoshop 2026 (ps ver 27.6) on macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 clicking on the different type layers shows the font in the tool options bar.

    Also double clicking on the type layer should bring up a dialog showing the font.

     

    This is a Adobe KB on the subject of PostScript font support:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/postscript-type-1-fonts-end-of-support.html

     

     

     

     

     

    ZerinaAkula
    ZerinaAkulaAuthor
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    May 6, 2026

    Yes, it names the fonts, however, when I update the fonts, they look nothing like what I designed, meaning, not only do they not appear to be the same fonts, they lost all of the font weight, kerning, leading, etc. And what’s even weirder, one of the fonts is one I had actually purchased as an OpenType font, and it’s already active in my font library, so there shouldn’t have been a need to update it. That’s when I went searching to find out where the list of fonts to be replaced can be found because once I update them, the design is ruined.

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