Adobe fonts missing in XD

[perrybrus]

When I install a font from the My Adobe fonts UI they show up in the font list in PS, ID and Illu but not XD. Yet another XD font issue in addition to the ones we already have. OS is W10.

[Preran]

Have a look at the solutions in these posts and let us know if they helped.

add fonts to adobe experience design

Can I install fonts in Adobe creative XD?

Thanks,

Preran

[perrybrus]

These are not fonts from Adobe Font Kit but fonts downloaded from Adobe Fonts. These are two separate features. I never use Font kit. Never worked for me in any of the CC apps. But the newly published Adobe Fonts service does, well at least in the PS, ID and Illu.

From your link: "XD should load all fonts you have installed on your OS.  If you just installed a new font then please restart XD in order to have access to them." This has NEVER worked! C'mon, surely you must know that this doesn't work as described? There are literary thousands of posts on this. XD on Windows has major typeface issues and the font files I have does NOT get detected locally by XD. As I wrote in my post here, the newly installed fonts from Adobe Fonts (the CC service) doesn't show up in XD, but in PS, ID and Illu they do show up. Time to fix all the XD font issues if you ask me

[Preran]

Thank you for the feedback. I would recommend getting in touch with us directly using this link Contact Customer Care​ for further investigation.

If you are not comfortable doing that, I am hoping that someone that knows better will take it from here.

Thanks,

Preran

[perrybrus]

I suggest that someone working at Adobe or for Adobe brings the fonts issues up for highest level as there are so many different issues related to fonts in XD. It's become the mother of all problems and its been going on since day one. XD and fonts is not a very good match. A real struggle.

[abhinaythakur]

Agree with @perrybrus. Its mid-2020 and I am still facing this issue. Fonts activated from "Adobe Fonts" are not appearing even after restarting XD. Please fix this. It is annoying, to say the least.

[htanner]

its 2021. guess why i'm here. 

-.-

[승호5EC4]

Lol. me too (June 2021)

[Stephanie23775356ozfu]

It's March, 2022. Guess why I am here. Still not fixed. 🙄

[mustLearnMore]

July 2021 and this STILL isn't fixed. Another bug in a VERY long list of bugs in Xd... 

[Rishabh_Tiwari · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

We're so sorry to hear about the trouble. If you've installed fonts using a font manager such as FontBase

• In FontBase, select Settings (it should be a vertical ellipsis "…") 
• Change the Root folder location to "C:/FontBase" (or C:\FontBase — not sure if it's front or backslash)

You can also try the suggestions shared here https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/user-guide.html/fonts/kb/troubleshoot-font-activation.ug.html

Regards

Rishabh

[mustLearnMore]

No, that's  not the issue (and I think if you read through this thread, you would know that). The fonts work fine in all other apps, it's ONLY Xd that has this issue. And this is an issue that has been ongoing for YEARS (like many other bugs) and STILL hasn't been rectified. 

[Brandon Araújo5F8F]

Man... I can't use font awesome... FONT AWESOME without a headeache. I spent 50 min only today and still could'nt solve the problem. 

Thank you, guys.

Nice experience. =] 

[Mark van Hagen]

@Rishabh_TiwariThis worked! I've been struggling with fonts in XD from the beginning. Not being able to activate certain Google Fonts or local fonts (and in the beginning Typekit/Adobe fonts). Couldn't get the combination XD and FontBase to work for me. But this tip just helped me out! Simply changed the Root folder to C:/FontBase. So now I can activate my local fonts and Google fonts using FontBase. Thanks

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for reaching out and confirming. Feel free to reach out if you need any further assistance.

Regards

Rishabh

[Rohit24251915yzpw]

can u plz tell me how to do it, Im not able to understand wht is this root folder 

[Nich01a5]

Thanks @Rishabh_Tiwari! Worked like a charm!

[Mat_Jones]

LOL August 2021 and I'm here

[ANARCHYSCD]

This is doing my head in. Managing multiple projects and having to constantly gamble whether fonts will load, and if they don't, you're just f#cked... It's pure lucky dip... I've loaded the Aaux Next family on Adobe Fonts, and XD only see 16 of the 18 fonts... 2 that I've used are just not there... But they're there in Illustrator and Extensis Suitcase.

I'm >>this close<< to abandoning XD, as it is an enormous time waster with issues like this.

[abhinaythakur]

I have abandoned this crap app already! Thank God, Figma exists on this planet. Happily designing on it

[ericfiori]

Good idea! I'm going to uninstall XD right now and try Figma 😉

[Cem5E42]

Ow wow, I totally forgot. I dont really know why I switched to Adobe XD. I am gonna switch back, this is a really annoying bug, and there are much more.

[Chat2022]

December 10, 2022 and this issue is still going on. I already exhausted all steps I found online how to sync or activate Adobe Fonts in XD but still nothing happen. It works on other Adobe program, why not in XD??? Come on Adobe why are you not fixing this up, zzzz

[suellencaroline]

I am having the same issue mentioned by other people here. I downloaded fonts from Google Fonts, installed them, and started using them in a project in Adobe XD. I closed my project, turned off the laptop, and in the next day when I came back to the project, those fonts were missing. At first, I thought it was an issue with Windows, so I reinstalled the font. But this continue happening in the following days. The only thing that have worked for me so far is to open my project, see that the font is missing, close XD, install the font (again), then open the project in Adobe XD one more time. I already checked the Fonts folder in Windows, and the fonts are there. Every time I install them again, Windows tells me that this font is already installed, but I ask it to install again, and it's the only thing that works to fix the missing fonts. I keep the downloaded fonts in my Downloads folder as I know I'll have to reinstall it every time I'm working on that project. I just sharing in case someone is facing the same issue and can benefit from the same workaround. I really love Adobe XD, but I guess like many people I'll have to start giving a chance to Figma, cause this is not an acceptable situation for people who work with this every day, and apparently Adobe is not doing anything to fix it for years.

[Mark van Hagen]

I'm using Fontbase to sync the Google Fonts and some local fonts, and it works for me. Notice that I had to change the Fontbase root folder to c:/Fontbase to get things to work in XD and use the setting "Start on system start".

Notice that syncing variable fonts don't work (yet?) on Windows, so for example if I sync the Libre Franklin font in Fontbase https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Libre+Franklin the fonts don't work. They show up as one and the same font for all font weights.

The Adobe fonts seem to work fine.