Missing fonts displayed with (OTF) after the name

Bonjour,

I had this problem with Montserrat, I deleted the font everywhere, on Adobe Cloud, but also on my computer in the control panel > font. I then reinstalled the good font on Adobe Font.

I just had this same problem and I solved it! So here's what to do:

1. In your properties panel, next to the character field, click the little "down arrow" to reveal the font panel.
2. At the very top of the font panel, there are two tabs: fonts and find more. Click find more and scroll down to find the font in question.
3. Your font will either have a little cloud icon with a check mark or, most likely, a little cloud icon with a "..." below it. Click that cloud to activate the font.

In my case, "Open Sans" was the font that went missing. For whatever reason, it had become inactive. Once activated, all of my issues went away.

Hi Jussome Guy,

in the case of Adobe's Source families you can also download and access the font files at Github.

Yesterday we had a case in the forum that seems to be similar to yours. I made some suggestions, explained possibilities, but the original poster did not come back to comment yet.

Please read through this:

Font missing; TT OTP font-versions appearing, and reinstall font conflict

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/font-missing-tt-otp-font-versions-appearing-and-reinstall-font-conflict/m-p/11838006#M414823

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/font-missing-tt-otp-font-versions-appearing-and-reinstall-font-conflict/m-p/11838043#M414827

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

Was this issue ever solved? I have the same exact problem. Properly installed font keeps showing up missing with added "(OTF)" in the name, whenever I get the file back from my coworker. I can replace the fonts with activated fonts without the (OTF) in the filename and as long as I hold on to the file, the fonts are fine,  but once saved by the other coworker, comes back to me it is back to Missing. We both use fonts via Adobe Fonts (Source Sans Pro) Thank You!

Hi there,

So sorry to hear about this issue. In addition to the information shared by Bill and Colin, please refer to the help articles shared below:

Use fonts in InDesign

Resolve missing fonts in desktop applications

Let us know if this helps or if you need any further assistance.

Regards,

Srishti

I'd certainly try what Bill Silbert is suggesting in the first instance. With this font though, I've experienced this before.

There are different ways that Montserrat can be loaded onto a machine. It can either be activated as an Adobe font from the Adobe Fonts site: Montserrat | Adobe Fonts

OR it can be downloaded directly as it is a Google font and used as per its Open Font Licence: Google Fonts

I have a feeling that InDesign is trying to locate the font via Adobe Fonts first, rather than look for where it might be on your machine. If you are able to find the Montserrat fonts that you have been using already, and put them into a folder in the same directory as your InDesign file and call it Document fonts (spelled like that and in the same casing) and see what happens when you try to open the file.

OTF stands for Open Type Fonts. Open Type fonts are considered the standard for modern typography. They work equally well on Mac and PC. Check wherever you have your fonts loaded to see if the actual font has .otf as a suffix. As to why the fonts are not being read that depends on how your fonts are actually loaded. If you are using a font utility like Suitcase check to make sure that the fonts are active. If you usually use auto-activation through that font activity make sure that the latest auto activation plug-in has been installed. If, as you say, you have recently updated InDesign then you may not have updated the auto-activation plug-in to be compatible with the latest InDesign.