Myriad Pro in Indesign: Regular font style missing

[grace_3709]

I've downloaded Myriad Pro (full font family) from Adobe fonts and all font styles are showing in Illustrator, but when I go into indesign it does not show the regular font style for Myriad (only every other font style in the family). It says "Myriad Pro (OTF)" In indesign while other fonts I've downloaded haven't shown that before. Not sure what the issue is, there is an option for regular but when I click it, it activates the "light" font weight instead of regular.

 please help!

[Bobby Henderson]

The basic styles of Myriad Pro are included with Adobe InDesign via fonts stored in program sub-folders. It's possible that synching the Myriad Pro family from Adobe Fonts is creating an odd conflict with the Myriad styles already present.

[Beep Sparrow]

I've been having this same issue, and I've not found a solution either. My company uses Myriad as it's main branding font, so this is getting really obnoxious. 

[Thomas31135028wwdk]

Not sure if this is the answer. I have been having the same issue with Myriad Pro as well. It also came up as OTF in InDesign. So I read Bobby's reply and decided to remove the Myriad Pro I installed from Adobe Fonts, and now the OTF problem is gone and I can use Myriad Pro Bold now. I think Bobby said Myriad Pro was installed with InDesign so there is no need to download it again from Adobe Fonts since it might bring conflicts with double fonts and will cancel out certain forms of it. You can try what I did and just remove Myriad Pro that was installed from Adobe Fonts in the Cloud app. it might resolve your issue. It helped me to get Myriad Pro Bold to work for a crucial INDD file I needed to print and get ready for translators.

[Bobby Henderson · Accepted solution]

One way I've worked around this is by adding Myriad VF at Adobe Fonts and installing it in the Creative Cloud Desktop App so all apps can use it. Myriad VF doesn't get confused for the built-in styles of Myriad Pro within Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. It doesn't get confused with the Myriad Variable Concept font in Illustrator either.

[LJCameron5044]

Myriad Pro is producing a similar problem for me in INDD following recent pushed update to CC software. (Windows 10 Enterprise, Adobe INDD 2025 version 20.1)    

Existing files no longer recognize Myriad Pro semibold and italic. I uninstalled the font family and reinstalled from Adobe Fonts, and in Font manager see all 40 weights listed under "Myriad Pro (40)". However:

• In INDD -- without a file open -- I now have 2 versions of Myriad: "Myriad Pro" (40 weights listed) and "Myriad Variable Concept" (16 weights listed, some not in the other family). Both have semibold and italic within the same family.
• However, opening an existing INDD file that contains "Myriad Pro - Semibold", I now see 3 versions: "Myriad Variable Concept" with 16 weights, "Myriad Pro (OTF)" with 36 weights (no semibold), and "Myriad Pro" showing regular and semibold missing. 

If I go to cure the problem through the stylesheet, I'm offered Variable but also two "Myriad Pro (OTF)" options, one of which has just 5 weights including the missing semibold. Argh!

Is there a method to merging the two (OTF) versions that appear in my documents (it's affecting all files in the book) -- given that according to Fonts manager, there's only one family of Myriad Pro installed, with 40 weights in one folder?

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

[LJCameron5044]

To follow up a bit: These three screenshots show what I'm offered in Find/Replace font dialogue box -- in which the 36-weight Myriad Pro (OFT) list disappears and only the 5-weight list is offered, and which shows semibold as active in the file anyway. Sigh. I'd hate to start replacing one nonexistent semibold with a version from a family set that only has 5 weights in it.

[Bobby Henderson]

Myriad Variable Concept is a separate version of Myriad. It is an OpenType Variable Font with variable axes for weight and width. The regular Myriad Pro family has 40 "static" OpenType font files.

Complicating matters, there have been numerous builds of Myriad Pro released over the years, first in Postscript Type 1 format and then OpenType. Myriad Pro font files that were bundled in a copy of InDesign may be seen as different fonts from the version of Myriad Pro hosted at Adobe Fonts.

There may be a glitch in font naming tables for Myriad Pro that are causing some styles to be listed in the font menu separately. You could try deleting the Font Data Cache file to make InDesign rebuild/refresh the fonts list. I'm not sure if that would work, but the step does tend to solve some other font sync issues.

[LJCameron5044]

Thanks for the advice, Bobby. We've uninstalled, trashed, and reinstalled the INDD 20.1, repeatedly deleted the font data cache files, and uninstalled Myriad from the CC desktop Font manager. Opened Font manager in the cloud, selected Myriad Pro (40 weights) carefully not the other variations, and chose Add (rather than install). Result on opening INDD: Myriad Variable and Myriad Pro, both 40 weights, present in the fonts list. Result on opening an existing AND a new file: two versions of Myriad Pro (OTF), one with 36 weights, one with 4-5. This will just drive me to distraction!

[Beep Sparrow]

I've done all the same steps as LJCameron, and my results are exactly the same. My organzation uses Myriad Pro as the main branding font, so this is really messing up my workflow. It's happening in other Adobe products, too.

[Bobby Henderson]

I think one source of the problem is the very outdated conventions in font table naming structures. Basically, operating systems like Windows think a type family has only four styles: regular, italic, bold and bold-italic. We all know that's absurd. We're in the year 2025, not 1982.

Many type families have dozens of styles. Variable fonts can have thousands or even millions of possible instances. For whatever reason the various styles in these type families are supposed to be organized in groups of four in the font table naming structure.

Apparently there is a fair amount of inconsistency of standards in how these font name tables are created and how they are read by applications and the operating system. I have one type family called Vito that has 60 styles. It works properly in Adobe Illustrator. But in CorelDRAW the five bold upright styles (with 5 different widths) get overridden by the 5 bold-italic styles. That's pretty aggravating. I've tried correcting the table naming errors using the TransType4 font conversion program. Unfortunately the corrected fonts end up with certain character ranges (like the numerical fraction sets) messed up. This is just one of several long standing bugs I've been seeing with fonts.

Recently there was all this hubbub about Harfbuzz, which resulted in Adobe dropping support for Postscript Type 1 fonts in all its applications. If the powers that be in the computer industry real want to improve how type works in computers they need to fundamentally re-work the font naming table conventions.

[LJCameron5044]

All true enough, although it doesn't explain why the previous vsn of INDD and Illustrator managed Myriad just fine for years, while this update appears to have garbled the fonts path in two apps. We don't use Myriad or Minion in our Microsoft products at all, so neither appears in the OS folders/files.

I've since asked around my team, and one colleague working in INDD/AI post-update reports he has only Myriad Variable (40 weights in one complete set). This is alarming, as I don't want to risk files created by different designers using differently spec'd style sheets that conflict when someone else works on them.

Our IT team had recently updated his OS to Windows 11, so he speculates that might have resolved/deleted the split Myriad Pro (OTF) problem. I'm going to ask for my own PC to be updated and see what happens... Failing that, I suppose we might try reverting to previous INDD and AI releases across the entire team.

@Beep Sparrow , I'll post here and report what happens!

[Beep Sparrow]

Thank you!

My system is still running on Windows 10, as my IT hasn't updated us to the new system, and they won't want to update because the resort booking engine isn't compadible with Windows 11, and I need to also access that from time to time. I don't have anyone to ask about their experiences as I'm the only designer at my resort. Hopefully this will be resolved! 

[Kirkie23795473dzmv]

I have windows 11 and I have been battling the same problem as you have. I too show 3 sets of Myriad Pro, Variable etc. I have been having trouble for months. I'll delete all myriad pro from EVERYWHERE then add it back in from Creative Cloud and same issue. I'll restart AI and INDD and sign out and back into creative cloud and I will finally get the 40 weights to all show. It will all go along smoothly for a few days and then Myriad Pro is gone again. I am beyond frustrated. The people I report to aren't graphic designers so it appears as though it is me who can't meet the deadline. I have spent an unbelievable amount of time on this. It's to the point I'm considering trashing Adobe all togehter.  

[LJCameron5044]

So current state of play in our team:

• 2 people completely unaffected by font menu problems are still running Win10 and INDD 19.3
• 1 person who updated INDD (to 20.2) and AI early in March was affected by font menu problems before AND after updating to Win11
• One person who updated to Win11 at end of February and didn't note any font issues, then updated INDD and AI in early March, now has the same font problems

The latter two have repeatedly deleted and reinstalled CC software, deleted and added and/or installed fonts from CC website, and cleared all caches, with exactly the same result: All weights of Myriad Pro visible on opening the app on desktop; on opening a new or existing file, the weights split into the two (OTF) sets.

Our IT folks theorize, as did Bobby Henderson earlier in this thread ["Myriad Pro font files that were bundled in a copy of InDesign may be seen as different fonts from the version of Myriad Pro hosted at Adobe Fonts."], the problem can't be resolved by us users or, apparently, IT administrators -- it is buried in the latest Adobe app update. Our IT folks flat out don't want to roll back to a previous version on the grounds of it being unsupported; in my view, this buggy version is currently unsupported by Adobe anyway so what's to lose?

Our IT team Adobe administrator is entering an Adobe help ticket and will keep prodding. Till then, the designers are managing our templates as issues arise, using the split (OTF) groups to solve whatever "missing font" problem presents itself in each one. But it's a real mess, and open to creating so many more problems downstream if (OTF) is ever corrected.

[defaultrkhchy7dkcqr]

Turn the font off and back on in Adobe Fonts.

This "incomplete font" glitch was a quick fix for me. When packaging my InDesign file, I had a warning that Myriad Pro Italic was incomplete. I went to Adobe Fonts online, then to Myriad Pro, clicked the "remove" button under Myriad Pro Italic, then clicked the same button again, now that it says "add font." I returned to my still-open InDesign file, and all was well when I packaged it.