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November 8, 2017
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Font not showing up

  • November 8, 2017
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I recently installed a font that a client wanted, and it's not showing up in InDesign or Illustrator. There are 5 fonts in the family, but only one shows up. They are installed and in the Fonts folder in Windows.

I can't get them to install. I've tried deleting the *.lst files, but still no luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

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    New Participant
    June 25, 2019

    This is 1 1/2 years later and may be not exact situation but if you are just seeing 1 2 3 or 4 or less than the amount of fonts you installed and are seeing some but not all that you installed via windows be sure to look at Adobe Fonts | Explore unlimited fonts website to see if adobe is using their font set instead of otf or ttf. Sometimes if you install 3rd party templates and hit the sync font feature it will install just the fonts that it needs via sync. In premier pro and possibly other ones ie Adobe after effects only the fonts that adobe installs (font sync) once installing 1 or more it will only show those sub family fonts that are activated through Adobe Fonts and will no longer recognize the ttf fonts installed only those synced through Adobe.

    By activating through the website above the other part of the missing family you need they should appear instantly within Adobe Creative software platforms without having to close and re open the program.

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    Dov Isaacs
    Braniac
    November 8, 2017

    I tried installing all fourteen faces of Trade Gothic LT as they appear on the Adobe Font Folio 11 via Windows' Install font facility (right click and Install).

    Started up InDesign 13.0 (aka CC 2018), created a new document and tried accessing the font and its styles. All 14 faces show and are available:

    Exactly which version of Windows are you running? There were major issues with font handling in the Windows 10 Creators version of Windows from this past Spring. The recently released Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709) seems to fix those problems.

              - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    MW Design
    Inspiring
    November 8, 2017

    Are the others perhaps variants of the one that does show up? Look at the style drop down and see if they are listed there.

    GoodSharkAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    November 8, 2017

    There isn't a drop down. Just the one font. Can't find the other ones under another name either. It's as if they don't exist.

    MW Design
    Inspiring
    November 8, 2017

    Can you show a screen shot like the above?

    Also, what font is this?

    kglad
    Braniac
    November 8, 2017