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Noto Color Emoji Font Causes InDesign to Freeze or Lag

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 10, 2024
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Hi,

I am testing the Google font "Noto Color Emoji" with InDesign 2020 (version 17.4.1) and having some troubles:
My whole document became so slow, or even froze ever since I inserted a glyph in this font.
Viewing the Glyph panel is also a matter of minutes ...

Has someone stumbled upon this issue?
The non-color-version (Noto Emoji) works really smooth.
Does InDesign not really support svg-fonts yet?

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Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Hi Elizabeth,

My experience has been that using any of the newish SVG color fonts and variable fonts causes InDesign to slow down a lot. I notice that some of these new-type variable width and color font OpenTypes vary in how much they tax the system.

As a result, I tend to avoid using them on deadline-oriented real-world work. I know that is not a fix for you. I also don’t know whether it is the fault of the individual font or the support built into InDesign.

I hope you are running at least 32gb or RAM on a strong computer system.

Mike Witherell

StuVL

Participant

Yes still same happening in 2026. Mac OS and Adobe all updated to latest version still problem with Noto Color Emoji and InDesign. How come?

I need a few emoji’s from Noto that are not available in the Adobe EmojiOne font.

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Punkylex

Participating Frequently

Same issue here on the latest InDesign update running on a fast computer (Mini M4). Adobe, please solve this issue! Nevertheless there is no problem with the Adobe EmojiOne font. So meanwhile, in my case the solution is not to use the Google Font.

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ughjanina

Participant

Experiencing the same issue on Photoshop CC

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Foolisz

Participant

Same

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Elisabeth5FF3Author

Inspiring

I'm currently working with InDesign 19.5.1 and its still occuring.
I downloaded "Noto Color Emoji" from google fonts, put it in the InDesign document fonts folder, and as soon as I insert a glyph or open the glyph panel, InDesign slows down to a point I can't work with the document anymore.

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Alexa_N_Motion

Participating Frequently

im having this issue currently in inDesign 20.1

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Elisabeth5FF3Author

Inspiring

Hi, thank you for your suggestions!

I asked a colleague of mine to test the font, and on his computer, unfortunately, it was quite slow too.
We updated to InDesign version 18, it was a bit faster but still not as fast as we wished it to be.
As soon as we checked the glyph panel, or used a glyph of this font in the Text, InDesign slowed down significantly 😕😕

Rishabh_Tiwari

Legend

Hi,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. In addition to the suggestions shared by Rene, you can also try them in this article. Feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance.

Thanks

Rishabh

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Elisabeth5FF3Author

Inspiring

Hi, thanks for the article!
I'll try clearing the font cache, maybe thats the reason.
However, when my colleague testet the font, it was slow too - even though it wasn't even installed but only in the "document fonts" folder. So maybe a corrupt font cache is not the issue 🤔 🤔

Rene Andritsch

Community Expert

SVG OpenType fonts have been support since InDesign version 14 (CC 2018). Try to update InDesign to the current version and try again.
I did not encounter any problems with that font on macOS and InDesign 2024 (19.3)