macOS Catalina: Helvetica Regular is missing

[schafsmann]

In Photoshop Helvetica Regular is missing, and cannot be selected from drop down menus. The font is there and works in any other application. In Adobe Illustrator, too!

Any ideas?

[gener7]

Have you upgraded to 10.15.1 yet? Yes it's a documented bug, was supposed to have been fixed:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/ps-20-0-7-on-macos-10-15-helvetica-regular-do...

Also be sure Photoshop is updated as well.

If not, try CC 2019 and by all means join the above discussion, this is where the developers listen in.

Gene

[schafsmann]

Thank you Gene, I'm on a recent system and just did a fresh PS install yesterday. All up-to-date. Problem persits on my iMac as well as my Macbook-Pro.

Thanks for pointing me to the bug-report where I posted this issue as well. Seems like I am not alone here...

[silk-m · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The following methods are irregular and I will not be responsible for any troubles.

Copy "Helvetica.ttc" from the system font folder to the following location.

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/Helvetica.ttc　

You can use Helvetica Regular with macOS Catalina 10.15.1 + Photoshop 21.0.1.

If the problem is corrected by updating macOS Catalina, please remove Helvetica.ttc.

[schafsmann]

I'll give that a try. Hower there is no /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts/ folder...

[silk-m]

You should create a Fonts folder.

[schafsmann]

I just did. And it works like a charm.

Thank you for that!