
Typographers have the tools to create font families.

A common strategy is to package the Light and Extra Bold in a separate family. If you have more than 4 weights, you must have Office is geared to use font families, where you switch fonts by clicking on the Bold and/or Italic buttons.

Traditionally these are Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. It's a better approach to design templates for users with only 4-6 weights, you'll get more consistent and professional documents and presentations from ordinary users. I've been suggested to try, tried and failed with many low-level suggestions.Įmbedding fonts, alternative font families, deactivation and reinstalling.Ī design department needs every weight, but users get confused. Is it possible someone has a definitive solution? The culprits seem to be the Light, Extra Bold and Bold. What is it with PowerPoint and this fricking font. I've tried 2 different families (Proxima Nova & Proxima Nova Alt) and both have issues. This is a design deck and REQUIRES ALL WEIGHTS. "Just use a different weight" is NOT a solution. I have 3 execs that are expecting me to solve this. So then PowerPoint substitutes a weight up and throws all of the line-breaks off. Mac-created PowerPoint decks that use all of the weights of the Proxima Nova font family can't load all the same weights on the PC.

Right now, I'm pulling my hair out because I can't get the ENTIRE family of Proxima Nova to work in the PC environment. So both my Mac-based studio and my PC-based executives are using the font. My agency has made Proxima Nova our official font. I'm in desperate need of some cross-platform PowerPoint help.
