This Project Uses Fonts That Are Not Currently Available On This Computer

[Lucrecio Poinson]

Textlayers that use the missing font is indicated in the Font Family selection of the Character panel with the "[ ]" symbols, e.g [OstrichSans] as shown in the diagram above.

If you have the font installed already, but it's of a different Font Weight that the template uses, this error message will still pop up, so do take note of the Font Weight as well.

The fonts are their authors' property, and can either be a paid product, freeware, shareware, demo versions or public domain. Check the indicated author's website for details, and contact him if in doubt. If no author/licence is indicated, that doesn't mean it's free.

When I open my project AE gives me the Resolve Fonts message "Warning: This project uses fonts that are not currently available on this computer. Font substitiution will occur until the originals become avaiable."

I've already used this font previously with AE, same project. The font is validated with Font Book on Mac OS Ventura. The font was a purchased House Industries font so it's not a buggy font. The font also loads fine in Adobe Illustrator 27.2.

I'm a student, and I've been using Adobe Illustrator through my school acount for the past several months, and over that time I've downloaded quite a few fonts through Adobe Fonts. Just today I was working on a project in which I used some newly downloaded/activated fonts and some old ones as well. I stepped away for a little while and when I came back, there was a pink highlight around all of my text (across several other documents as well - I opened past ones to see if this was a recurring problem, and it seemed like it was) and a message saying "The document uses fonts that are currently not available on your computer." There's a little box that was below the message that allowed me to reactivate the fonts that I was apparently missing, but the checkbox wouldn't work. I closed and reopened the documents and the same problem kept occuring. I finally decided to check the Adobe Fonts website to see if the fonts were straight up removed, but there they were. However, this time there was a prompt that said "this font isn't included with your plan," even though I've been using some of these fonts for the past few months... I have no clue what's going on (and I'm a little frustrated), and if someone could please help I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks

Let me move this to the Adobe Fonts forum for you, which is the appropriate forum for your question.

The Using the Community forum is for help in using the Adobe Support Community forums, not for help with specific programs. Product questions should be posted in the associated product community.

Second, the individual CC program (for me, InDesign) is not communicating with the cloud in such a way as to access your fonts. It is not meant to. So, just because you have Illustrator open, are connected to the internet, have all your preferences set up properly, and are fully updated, does not meant you have access to your activated fonts!

Third, there is ONE APP that does give your other CC apps access to your activated fonts. And that is the Creative Cloud desktop app. So open it up, let it run, and **POOF** your other CC apps now have access to your activated fonts.

Don't want to deal with this? Purchase your important, favorite, or frequently used fonts separately and actually install them on your computer the old-fashioned way. Just know you can't do it through Adobe CC because that is not how the system is designed. It's meant to be an efficient cloud-based thingy.

What they should really change is the error message. It is SO unhelpful. It should say, "These fonts are not available because you need to access them through the cloud so OPEN YOUR CREATIVE CLOUD APP!" Certainly the instruction to "enable" the fonts meant nothing to me. And the buttons offered do not appear actually to have any effect when clicked, other than channeling all one's documents into an extremely small pool of boring fonts that always seem to be available (are installed on one's computer?)

I love this question, since font licensing is an issue that many people perceive as boring, dry or intimidating. Here I want to give you a short overview and focus on the difference between free, trial, personal, and commercial use. The problem is that almost every foundry does things differently, so be sure to check the specifics of your font vendor of choice.

Several times I fell in love with some details of a typeface, purchased it, and then found out that it was actually too much or distracting when I used it in my design. To solve this dilemma, many foundries nowadays offer trial fonts. Some of my favorites do, which means they enable you to try out the typeface with a limited, or sometimes the full character and feature set.

Among others, the type desinger Alanna Munro (I featured Avona & Avaon Serif by her) makes her fonts available for personal use or student projects on a pay-what-you-can basis. I reached out to her, and according to Alanna, personal use is:

This all falls into the limitations when picking a proper typeface for a project. Sometimes you have a cool font installed on your computer, and want to use it in an app, UI design or web design. But then you find out that licensing exceeds the given parameters, or the foundry does not offer the license you need. So check this first.

Good question! If you take this very strictly and you post it publicly on a company page on Facebook, its commercial use. Of course you can use free fonts for that or system fonts. Some foundries offer specific Social Media licenses for it, others include it in the desktop license.

About the modification: in many cases, you are not allowed to modify the font file = software. Technically you could redraw it, that is not forbidden. The design itself can not be protected, but the software can. But there are plenty of Open Source fonts out there that you can use right away, basically all on Google Fonts.

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However: I got a new laptop and installed Scrivener on it, then entered the registration code (I had Scrivener installed on my old computer) and everything seemed to be fine. There is apparently an eSellerate-error, but I had this with my netbook, too, and it soon worked.

Now I opened my projects and saw that Scrivener had changed the default font to Helvetica everywhere, whilst I had used Book Antiqua. When trying to change back, I saw that neither Book Antiqua nor Garamond is any longer included in the list of fonts.

Now apart from my wish to get back my favourite fonts, I wonder what has happened? I downloaded the Windows version for Scrivener yesterday February 29. When I open Microsoft Word and Libre Office, they both have the fonts in question.

I discovered that - strange enough - the missings fonts could indeed be used in Word, but would not appear in the standard fonts panel. I now tricked the system by installing an older version of Word, and - here we go again! All my missing darlings are back and also appear in Scrivener. Sometimes it just takes a little push into the right direction.

I've been tasked with making a powerpoint theme for the company I work for and one of the requirements is that it uses a font that comes standard with most computers. What are some of the built-in sans serif fonts that graphic designers respect and use more frequently?

Of the original "web-safe" (that is, as close to universal as you'll get on the Web) sans-serifs (Arial, Impact, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Verdana), Verdana tends to get the most love. It's well-designed and is designed to be readable on the screen. It was designed by Matthew Carter, a respected typeface designer, and the design itself is pretty original, so it doesn't get panned for its existence and history as much as Arial does. Also, MoMA added it to its design collection, calling it (and the others in the collection) "a milestone in the history of typography". A scientific study (funded by Microsoft, so take with a grain of salt) touted Verdana's readability, particularly at small sizes. It was one of the first fonts that was designed with readability on the screen particularly in mind, so it has a large x-height (good for seeing the lowercase letters) and is well-hinted. These advantages will become less relevant as pixel density increases, but they're good things to look for in a screen font for now.

Arial is almost universally panned by designers (see above link), Impact isn't practical outside of headlines, and even though Tahoma is more or less Verdana's skinny brother, it doesn't tend to draw as much praise. I've personally never minded Trebuchet as a choice, but it doesn't seem to be as common.

If you're using Office 2007 or later, the ClearType collection comes into play. Three sans-serifs are available: Calibri, Candara, and Corbel. Everything I've read about and them adds to my personal opinion - they're good fonts to use. Wikipedia told me that "Calibri won the TDC2 2005 award from the Type Directors Club under the Type System category."

If you have the right version of Publisher (ours was 2003), there are some extra fonts available. I'm not as knowledgeable about this, but I know that Publisher was the reason we ended up with Franklin Gothic on our PCs, and that is an excellent choice of a sans-serif.

Work smarter and start using Google presentations (via Drive), where you have access to the myriad fonts available on Google fonts. Not only do you get a reliable set of awesome fonts, you get bonus points for collaboration and portability.

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