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shelbymistor
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June 30, 2017
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MN fonts replaced with mysterious font, cannot find name of font

  • June 30, 2017
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I'm working on a logo design in Illustrator and have been using a sans-serif font that I THOUGHT was called Tamil MN. When I went to upload the font to a web development designer online, I was having issues, and upon closer inspection I noticed that the font was actually supposed to be some kind of symbol font for another language (I do not recognize it, but kind of like Thai maybe). After hunting through all my fonts, it turns out that almost ALL fonts that end in "MN" (Tamil MN, Lao MN, Khmer MN) use this mysterious sans-serif font instead of the proper symbols! But I cannot find the file for the font that is actually displaying! I tried using the WhatTheFont! feature on Myfonts, and it compared it to New Millenium Sans regular, but it is not exact, and New Millennium Sans is not free. I don't want to buy a font that is already somewhere in my system! Has anyone else encountered this issue? I'll attach a photo of the mystery font that is appearing. Help identifying it would be very much appreciated! Thank you!

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    Correct answer Ton Frederiks

    Does not look like a mystery font to me, this is tamil MN regular.

    A truetype font installed with Mac OS.

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    June 30, 2017

    Tamil MN is just an ordinary Tamil font, with the Tamil and English alphabet. Different apps (fixed typo) will show different bits of the font.

    Apple will give you the right to use the font on the system it came with. I don't follow how you "send" it, but you have no right to copy it to another computer, even your own, even another Mac. You might or might not have the right to convert it. You can use it for any commercial design but not upload the font for web serving. You can use it in web graphics. Font licenses vary, check.

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    Anonymous
    July 6, 2017

    Can anyone please help which fonts are they?

    Monika Gause
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    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
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    July 6, 2017

    sehrr96962000  schrieb

    Can anyone please help which fonts are they?

    This is not at all related to this thread, so can you please create your own thread? Thank you.

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      Test Screen Name
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      June 30, 2017

      Reading between the lines, and possibly completely wrong, and based on " use this mysterious sans-serif font instead of the proper symbols!"  -- are you assuming that you will choose Tamil MN regular and that typing on a regular keyboard A,B,C etc. will type Tamil characters instead? Because that's not what happens. Not any more.

      Or... are you surprised to find non-English character in the Tamil MN font? It's a font for use in writing Tamil, which is both a language and an alphabet (தமிழ்), which happens to also contain some English characters, as most fonts do.  Anyway, if it's a font which comes with your Mac or Windows system you MUST NOT share it with your web designer !!

        shelbymistor
        shelbymistorAuthor
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        June 30, 2017

        Ok, so it is Tamil MN? I was just very confused because when I selected it in Illustrator it showed english letters, but when I looked at it in Fontbook, it showed the symbols. And when I searched online for "Tamil MN font," it only showed a bunch of different symbol fonts.

        On the web designer: I am using it on a web design platform (Showit 5), not sharing it with a different person. From what I've read, it's okay to use Apple fonts for commercial use (although I am only using it right now for my own website, I am not technically making money off of it).

        After converting it to a .ttf file from a .ttc, I was able to proceed without issues. Thank you so much for your help! Really appreciate it.

        Ton Frederiks
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        Ton FrederiksCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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        June 30, 2017

        Does not look like a mystery font to me, this is tamil MN regular.

        A truetype font installed with Mac OS.

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