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Sep 28, 2020 After you install a font into the Fonts folder in the operating system and start Microsoft Word for Mac, the font unexpectedly is not available in the Font dialog box, in the drop-down list, or in the Formatting Palette. Third-party fonts are not directly supported in Microsoft Office for Mac applications. Most applications (such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) include fonts that are automatically installed when you install the software. Microsoft « MyFonts The Typography Group at Microsoft is responsible for both fonts and the font rendering systems in Windows.
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What fonts can you assume Windows users will have? Mac users? And how about (gulp!) Linux & other UNIX users? Oh, & don't forget mobile users: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, & Windows Phone 7!
One answer can be found at Code Style Font Sampler, which asks visitors to fill out a survey asking them about the fonts they have on their computers. You should take the results with a grain of salt, as the results are biased in favor of users who:
- visit the site,
- agree to take the survey, &
- are able to correctly determine the fonts on their computers
Still, it provides some useful results. Go take a look & it'll give you some numbers you can work with.
Various resources also exist that give web developers some hard numbers & lists they can use when determining the fonts available on various operating systems.
Windows
The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on Windows:
Version | Default System Font |
---|---|
10 | Segoe UI1 |
8.1 | Segoe UI1 |
8 | Segoe UI1 |
7 | Segoe UI1 |
Vista | Segoe UI1 |
XP | Tahoma2 |
Me (Millennium Edition) | MS Sans Serif3 |
2000 | Tahoma2 |
98 Second Edition | MS Sans Serif3 |
98 | MS Sans Serif3 |
NT 4 | MS Sans Serif3 |
95 | MS Sans Serif3 |
NT 3.5 | MS Sans Serif3 |
NT 3.1 | MS Sans Serif3 |
3.1 | MS Sans Serif3 |
3 | Helv3 |
2 | Helv3 |
1 | Helv3 |
The number of typefaces & fonts Microsoft includes with Windows has been steadily increasing. First a table:
Typefaces (New) | Fonts (New) | |
---|---|---|
XP | 29 | 136 |
Vista | 90 | 191 |
7 | 111 (15) | 257 (49) |
8 | 118 (6) | 279 (17) |
8.1 | 124 (10) | 322 (45) |
10 | 93 (10) | 171 (45) |
10 (FoD) | 84 (3) | 269 (9) |
And now a detailed breakdown:
- Windows XP: 31 typefaces4 & 136 fonts5
- Windows Vista: 90 typefaces6 & 191 fonts
- Windows 7: 111 typefaces & 257 fonts7; 15 are new typefaces & 49 are new fonts8
- Windows 8: 118 typefaces & 279 fonts; 6 are new typefaces & 17 are new fonts9
- Windows 8.1: 125 typefaces, 322 fonts; 10 are new typefaces & 45 are new fonts10
- Windows 10: 177 typefaces, 440 fonts
- In the base install, there are 9311 typefaces & 17112 fonts.
- In that base install are 10 new typefaces & 45 new fonts.12
- Windows 10 also makes other typefaces & fonts available in Feature on Demand packages. According to Microsoft, FoD packages “are installed automatically by Windows Update when the associated languages are enabled in language settings (for example, by enabling a keyboard)” but can also be installed manually by using Settings > Apps > Apps & Features > Manage Optional Features. The FoD packages include 84 typefaces & 269 fonts.13
- In those FoD packages are 3 new typefaces & 9 new fonts.13
For more info:
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows 8/8.1
- Windows 10
- New fonts in Windows 10 (including Georgia Pro & Verdana Pro)
Wikipedia’s “List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows” lists fonts included with Windows 3.1–10.
In addition to these, you should also check out Microsoft's “Fonts and Products”, which lists fonts supplied not only with Microsoft’s products, but also included in UNIX, Mac OS X, & Adobe products.
Mac OS X/OS X/macOS
Apple has a page detailing System Fonts for macOS & iOS.
The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on macOS:
Version | Default System Font |
---|---|
10.15 | |
10.14 Mojave | San Francisco |
10.13 High Sierra | San Francisco |
10.12 Sierra | San Francisco |
10.11 El Capitan | San Francisco |
10.10 Yosemite | Helvetica Neue |
10.9 Mavericks | Lucida Grande |
10.8 Mountain Lion | Lucida Grande |
10.7 Lion | Lucida Grande |
10.6 Snow Leopard | Lucida Grande |
10.5 Leopard | Lucida Grande |
10.4 Tiger | Lucida Grande |
10.3 Panther | Lucida Grande |
10.2 Jaguar | Lucida Grande |
10.1 Puma | Lucida Grande |
10.0 Cheetah | Lucida Grande |
The number of typefaces & fonts Apple includes with Mac OS X/OS X/macOS has varied. First a table:
Typefaces/Fonts | |||
---|---|---|---|
Installed | Available for Download | Available in Documents or Apps | |
10.3 Panther | – / 74 | – | – |
10.4 Tiger | – / 117 | – | – |
10.5 Leopard | – / 160 | – | – |
10.6 Snow Leopard | – / 249 | – | – |
10.7 Lion | – / 225 | – | – |
10.8 Mountain Lion | – / 242 | – | – |
10.9 Mavericks | – / 507 | – | – |
10.10 Yosemite | ? | – | – |
10.11 El Capitan | ? | – | – |
10.12 Sierra | – / 473 | – / 106 | – / 158 |
10.13 High Sierra | 193 / 488 | 58 / 107 | 134 / 197 |
10.14 Mojave | 180 / 488 | 61 / 187 | 134 / 198 |
And now a detailed breakdown:
- Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
- 74 fonts installed14
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
- 117 fonts installed15
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- 160 fonts installed16
- 155 fonts installed17
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- 249 fonts installed18
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- 225 fonts installed19
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
- 242 fonts installed20
- OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- 507 fonts installed21
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite
- Full list not available
- 11 new typefaces & 29 new fonts22
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan
- Full list not available
- 6 new typefaces23
- macOS 10.12 Sierra24
- 473 fonts installed
- 106 fonts available for download
- 158 fonts available in documents or apps that use or request the font(s)
- 8 new typefaces & 12 new fonts25
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra26
- 193 (?) typefaces & 488 fonts installed
- 58 typefaces (?) & 107 fonts available for download
- 134 typefaces (?) & 197 fonts available in documents or apps that use or request the font(s)
- macOS 10.14 Mojave27
- 180 typefaces & 488 fonts installed
- 61 typefaces (?) & 187 fonts available for download
- 134 typefaces (?) & 198 fonts available in documents or apps that use or request the font(s)
Some interesting info is at Unicode fonts for Macintosh OS X computers.
UNIX & Linux
There are hundreds of different UNIX variants out there (Linux itself is one, and there are hundreds of variants of Linux!), so saying with certainty what fonts are safe to assume are on any particular user's UNIX box is difficult. Fortunately, even though there are hundreds of UNIX flavors, there are only a few that make up the majority of desktop use.
Fedora 29: 59 typefaces & 300 fonts installed28
Ubuntu Server28
- 12.04: 15 typefaces & 56 fonts installed
- 14.04: 13 typefaces & 47 fonts installed
- 18.04: 15 typefaces & 43 fonts installed
- 18.10: 4 typefaces & 16 fonts installed
For more, see Fonts supplied with UNIX / XFree and GhostScript.
iOS
The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on iOS:
Version | Default System Font |
---|---|
12 | San Francisco |
11 | San Francisco |
10 | San Francisco |
9 | San Francisco |
8 | Helvetica Neue |
7 | Helvetica Neue |
6 | Helvetica Neue |
5 | Helvetica Neue |
4 | Helvetica Neue |
iPhone OS 3 | Helvetica |
iPhone OS 2 | Helvetica |
iPhone OS 1 | Helvetica |
When the iPad came out, it had more fonts on it than did the iPhone. Apple has since rectified that, & it's my guess that it will continue to make sure both devices have the same number of fonts on them.
iOS Version | Fonts | |
---|---|---|
iPhone | iPad | |
iPhone OS (iOS 1)29 | 11 typefaces & 23 fonts (?) | – |
230 | 11 typefaces & 33 fonts | – |
331 | 20 typefaces & 55 fonts (10 new typefaces & 22 new fonts) | – |
432 | 54 typefaces & 120 fonts (13 new typefaces & 28 new fonts) | 57 |
5 | 57 typefaces33 60 typefaces & 161 fonts (6 new typefaces & 32 new fonts)34 | |
635 | 206 fonts (58 downloadable as needed) | |
7 | 244 fonts (287 downloadable as needed)36 10 new typefaces & 37 new fonts37 | |
8 | 77 typefaces & TK fonts (2 new typefaces & 6 new fonts)38 74 typefaces & 245 fonts39 | |
9 | 75 typefaces & 248 fonts40 | |
1041 | 75 typefaces & 248 fonts | |
11 | ||
12 | 263 fonts installed ? fonts available for download ? available in documents or apps that use or request the font(s) |
Android
Android is a bit more complicated, because while it doesn't include very many built in fonts, apps can bundle whatever fonts they want (note that this is now true for Apple's iOS as of version 4; however, since iOS also comes with over 50 built in fonts, most apps don't need to include their own).
Android versions 1 through 3 (code names: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, & Honeycomb) included only 3 fonts:
- Droid Sans
- Droid Serif
- Droid Sans Mono
You can read more about Droid:
Starting with version 4 of Android (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich), Google introduced a new standard font: Roboto. Here are some webpages about Roboto:
Windows Phone 7
Windows Phone 7 out of the box supports 16 fonts, including those in Core Fonts for the Web plus a few others. If you do not specify
font-family
, Segoe WP is used by default. However, like Android & iOS, developers can embed their own fonts in their apps if they desire.If you’re looking for my comments on Microsoft’s Core Fonts for the Web (Andalé Mono, Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, & Webdings) & Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel), see My Thoughts on Fonts.
- Segoe↩↩↩↩↩
- Tahoma (typeface)↩↩
- Microsoft Sans Serif↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
- Standard Windows Fonts↩
- Fonts supplied with Windows XP↩
- Fonts included with each version of Windows: Windows Vista Fonts↩
- Lines counted from Windows 7 font list↩
- Fonts included with Windows 7↩
- Lines counted from Windows 8 font list↩
- Lines counted from Windows 8.1 font list↩
- See List of Installed Typefaces in Windows 10 (N. America)↩
- Lines counted from Windows 10 font list↩↩
- Lines counted from Windows 10 font list: Fonts included in Feature On Demand (FOD) packages↩↩
- Lists found at Apple’s Mac OS X 10.3: Fonts list↩
- Lists found at Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4: Fonts list↩
- Lists found at Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5: Fonts list↩
- List found at Microsoft’s Fonts supplied with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard↩
- List found at Apple’s Mac OS X v10.6: Fonts list↩
- List found at Apple’s OS X Lion: Fonts list↩
- List found at Apple’s OS X: Fonts included with Mountain Lion↩
- List found at Apple’s OS X: Fonts included with Mavericks↩
- List found at Wikipedia’s List of typefaces included with macOS: New fonts added with OS X 10.10 Yosemite↩
- List found at Wikipedia’s List of typefaces included with macOS: New fonts added with OS X 10.11 El Capitan↩
- Lists found at Apple’s Fonts included with macOS Sierra↩
- Lists found at Wikipedia’s List of typefaces included with macOS: New fonts added with macOS 10.12 Sierra↩
- Lists found at Apple’s Fonts included with macOS High Sierra↩
- Lists found at Apple’s Fonts included with macOS Mojave & System Fonts. ↩
- Result of
fc-list
command. ↩↩ - List from John Gruber’s iPhone Fonts. ↩
- List from iOS Font List, availability set to 2.0. ↩
- List from iOS Font List, availability set to 3.0. ↩
- List from iOS Font List, availability set to 4.0. ↩
- Lists from Apple’s iOS 5: Font list. ↩
- List from iOS Font List, availability set to 5.0. ↩
- Lists from Apple’s iOS 6: Font list. ↩
- Lists from Apple’s iOS 7: Font list. ↩
- List from jeradesign’s “List of fonts and font families added in iOS 7” ↩
- List from iOS Font List, availability set to 8.0. ↩
- List from Nick Cheng’s iOS 8 font list. ↩
- List from Nick Cheng’s iOS 9 font list. ↩
- List from Nick Cheng’s iOS 10 font list. ↩
Note
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Symptoms
After you install a font into the Fonts folder in the operating system and start Microsoft Word for Mac, the font unexpectedly is not available in the Font dialog box, in the drop-down list, or in the Formatting Palette.
Cause
Third-party fonts are not directly supported in Microsoft Office for Mac applications. Some third-party fonts may work in one application and not in another. Other third-party fonts are installed in a 'family'. A family usually consists of the third-party font itself together with some or all of its variations (bold, italic, and so forth). Sometimes, a font may be displayed in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft Entourage, but you may be unable to use one of its variations, such as italic.
Office does not support custom fonts. This includes any fonts that were manipulated by a font or typography program.
Note
Microsoft Word Fonts For Mac
Microsoft Office for Mac technical support does not provide support for installing or configuring third-party fonts.
Basic font troubleshooting
If the following methods don't resolve your font issue, contact the font manufacturer or the website from which you purchased the fonts.
First, restart your computer, and then test the font again. Some installations are not complete until the computer is restarted. This also makes sure that all applications are restarted after the installation.
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Method 1
- Clear the font caches. To do this, quit all Microsoft Office applications. On the Home menu, click Go > Applications, and then click Apple's Font Book.
- On the Edit menu, click Select Duplicated Fonts.
- On the Edit menu, click Resolve Duplicates.
- To remove all the fonts from the computer that Font Book just disabled, follow these steps:
- After the duplicates have been resolved, select each disabled font, click File > Reveal in Finder, and then drag it to the trash.
- You may notice that Font Book sometimes turns off the newer copy of the font instead of the older one. If you prefer the newer copy, drag the older one to the trash, and then re-enable the new one.
- Restart the computer. Apple OS X will rebuild its font cache, and Word will rebuild its font cache from that.
- For best performance in Word, try to run with all your fonts enabled all the time. Each time that Word starts, it compares its font cache with the system font cache. If the two don't match, Word will regenerate its own font cache, which can take a few seconds. If you have dynamically enabled fonts, the system font cache will appear different nearly every time that Word runs this comparison.
- You must do this every time you install an update, because the Microsoft installer tries to restore the disabled fonts each time.
Method 2
Restart the computer in Safe mode. Then, restart the computer normally. For more information about how to restart your computer in Safe mode, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Font Library - Typography | Microsoft Docs
2398596 How to use a 'clean startup' to determine whether background programs are interfering with Office for Mac
Method 3
Create a new user account to determine whether the problem is associated with an existing user account.
The font is damaged, or the system is not reading the font
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If the font is not a custom font and does not appear in your Office program, the font may be damaged. To reinstall the font, see Mac OS X: Font locations and their purposes.
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