Issues with font styles

[flakovisionaries]

I have downloaded the Oswald font but only one variation of the font is useable. im trying to be able to use heavy,semi, italic, regular , etc i had tried to download 5 of the variations but they do not seem to pop up on my adobe illustrator. only one of the variations is useable which is the heavy italic font. anyone have a resolution for this? i looked at other posts on here but dont seem to find an answer for this issue. id appreciate the help! posted screenshots for clarity. 

[flakovisionaries]

i am on mac aswell

[Monika Gause]

And where did you get it from?

Illustrator is particularly peculiar about fonts. When they are not 150% OK, then Illustrator will have issues. Are you sure that this font is 150% OK?

[flakovisionaries]

i got it from https://files.design/templates/oswald seen a youtuber with the font that was using it on adobe illustrator and he had all variations of it

[Monika Gause]

You might want to try these: https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-illustrator-indesign.html

But also: other fonts might interfere when the names are colliding. Font managers might interfere as well.

[flakovisionaries]

im not familar with lingo what do you mean by 150?

[Monika Gause]

That is just an exaggeration of "OK". They need to be more than just OK. OK in every single aspect of being a font.

[Bobby Henderson]

Try syncing the Ozwald family via the Adobe Fonts service:
https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/oswald

Ozwald is commonly available via the Google Fonts web site (and I think can be downloaded from Font Squirrel too). I've personally seen some strange technical issues with some fonts I've downloaded from the Google Fonts web site. Adobe Illustrator usually loads the fonts just fine, but I've seen other applications and a certain font manager struggle to load them properly (they'll "punt" and revert the text object to default Arial). Sometimes downloading a newer, updated copy of the typeface will solve the properly. Syncing the type family via Adobe Fonts is another possible solution.  A decent number of Google type families are available to sync via Adobe Fonts. They all seem to work properly in all my applications.