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Thanks for trusting me with your file.
I looked into it.
I have both the Adobe Fonts version of the Acumin Pro activated, and an Acumin Variable Concept, as downloaded freely from one of the numerous repositories. But the typeface Acumin Variable Concept (in 3 font variations) is indeed reported missing in your file.
Which is totally correct, since that reported font is maybe similar to Acumin Pro, but technically not the same. And technically, the Acumin Variable Concept is definitely not available for XD (nor is any other font with that new and special Variable feature).
Adobe doesn't offer any Variable Acumin – just the (normal) Pro in various fonts.
What probably happens, is that the elements in your XD file have been brought over by placing or simply copying/pasting from Adobe Illustrator, which supports the Variable feature very well, as I have done in this element:
But using this part (copied or placed) in XD invokes another error:
This is all expected behavior !
BTW: as you can see, my variable version of the Acumin also has a different technical name, coming from a different foundry or distributor than your colleagues are using. Garamonds are also available in a dozen different incarnations, with similar or even the same menu names and designs, but technically totally different full names.
Just take a look at all these (free) Variable Acumin suppliers.
So I'm getting really interested in what your colleagues claim to be capable of, or what they're working with, and which Acumin Variable Concept they're using.
Not a clear diagnosis yet, but we're closing in on the culprit, and it's not on your part...
Hi, sorry for not having been able to reply for a while. It has been a busy week...
But... We're done ! It's clear now.
And the solution is a bit boring, actually.
Adobe supplies their OpenType Acumin Variable Concept font through the installation of e.g. InDesign and InCopy, but only in a special font folder, exclusively accessible to these applications. So it's not installed into the 'common' system or user based Fonts folder in Windows or Mac. That's how you are able to use it.
However, many users (like your colleagues) have simply and/or additionally downloaded or acquired it from somewhere or some one, and opened and installed it in their common fonts folder, making it also available to all other applications on their computer as well, even Adobe XD ! That doesn't mean that its "variable" features become available in XD, but at least they can use it and let it render texts in an ordinary fashion.
So grab it from one of those specific folders (or a colleague's common Fonts folder), and open or toss it manually into your common Fonts folder.
Below you can see the (upside-down) path to the Acumin Variable Concept for InDesign:
I'm sorry for having overlooked the aspect of font resource location.
Suppliers like Adobe and Microsoft adhere to such policies, to comply with the license of making it initially and exclusively available for their own and specific applications. It's a bit of a trick, but actually very easy to bypass. Unfortunately, I kept focussing on the existance of other Acumins, and XD's incapability to use its variable features...
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