Windows 8 Fonts not showing up

Juc1 · Jul 5, 2014

Hi all,

I have pasted some English alphabet OpenType font files into control panel / appearance and personalisation / fonts but they do not show up in the fonts folder. If I try to paste the files again it tells me "the gotham light file font is already installed - do you want to replace it?"

So if the font files are installed why can't I see them in the fonts folder?

I have tried unchecking "hide fonts based on language settings" but that does not seem to help. The fonts do not show up in Microsoft Word or Adobe CS6 and I get the same problem on my Windows 7 machine.

Any ideas please?

Thanks...

Matthew Lala · May 3, 2017

just registered to share a (possible) solution for people with various windows font issues.
This may solve stuff like -

• the font is in the folder, but not available in word or adobe photoshop or whatever
• the font says it's already installed, but it's not
• you say "yes, replace the installed font" but still don't see it showing up anywhere
• you have a ton of duplicated files in the windows font folder, ending in _0, or _1, etc.
• windows shows some members of a font family but not all of them
• the installed version of the font is different from some alternate version you're trying to install.

What I figured out is this - when you install a new font, windows copies the font file to the windows font folder, and at the same...

Matthew Lala · Mar 6, 2018

jp, to use unlocker, rather than just try to delete the file normally, you have to do this.

Right click the problem file and choose "Unlocker", and then it should ask what you want to do with the file, you'll get a box like this: (http://imgur.com/iW3197g)
Choose delete from the dropdown and click OK, and it should delete.

Worst case scenario, it might say it cannot delete the file until the next reboot, and so you just need to go through this process with all the files you need to remove, then reboot once to finally get rid of them.

Remember that it's not enough to just delete them from the windows font folder, you also need to make sure the list of fonts in the registry is up to date - meaning if a font is removed from the windows folder, it also must be removed from that list. Otherwise you'll get problems and errors later.

Check back to post #7 for instructions on how to see this list and remove fonts from it: https://windowsforum.com/threads/fonts-not-showing-up.192244/#post-694640

Windows 8 Fonts not showing up

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