Fonts not working

[Shannon_Strange]

Many of the fonts I choice do not work. I am assuming this is a licensing issue.

If so, how do you correct this within Krita? If not, how do you fix?

Thank you.

Shannon

[Michelist]

Krita uses the fonts provided by the operating system, and (I never checked that) if Krita should ship with a few own fonts, then you can be sure these have a license and Krita is allowed to use them.
So if there really is a license problem, it won’t be on Krita’s side. Nothing is more important in the FOSS sector than license compliance.

By the way, it would be very helpful to name the fonts, the version of Krita and the version of your OS.

Michelist

[Sketchy]

When you say ‘do not work’, are they showing up as an option within Krita at all? Or are they there but not looking as they should?

Please can you clarify how exactly they are not working? Do they work on other programs on your device?

I downloaded a bunch of extra fonts from a random site search on Google I found ( 11786 Free Display Fonts · 1001 Fonts) and all I had to do was save them and install somewhere on my PC and when I next loaded up Krita they were all there in the text drop down box.

(How I did it: I saved the downloads in my Documents folder, extracted the downloaded ZIP files, then right-click on each font file and click install. It took a while but wasn’t any more complicated than that thank goodness. (I tried selecting multiple files and instructing them to all install at once to save time but I found it would randomly leave some out so I had to go through with a fine tooth comb and find the ones it had missed.)

Could it be the specific fonts you are using - are they from other software that maybe has a copyright or restriction on availability for other programs?

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Edit: @Michelist pointed out my ‘half-a-job’ response and that I had originally missed out the part about needing to install the saved font files so the computer knows what they are. Thank you Michelist! My fingers responded a bit faster than my brain there. I had totally forgotten that I did that install step.

[Michelist]

@Sketchy

all I had to do was save them somewhere on my PC

Normally, a font must be made known to the operating system (installed) so that the operating system can make the fonts available to software that wants to use a font. This is the usual way of making fonts available, as a font only needs to be installed centrally once in order to be available to all requesting programs, instead of having to do this a second time for each piece of software.

On Windows, as an example, I use the Fonts’ folder in the Windows directory to make them available globally. Most users will probably use the respective Fonts’ user folder and install fonts locally for themselves.
Under Linux, fonts are at least managed centrally (like in Windows), I have never consciously looked for the installation folders there.

I know a software that is able to offer fonts temporarily under Windows (it makes them available).

Michelist

[ikewulf]

I’m also having issues with the fonts not working properly. The tool allows me to select the font I want when I’m editing the text, and it shows the proper font in the text editing window, but on the layer itself it has some default font instead of the one that is selected. I’ve tried several fonts, and all have the same result. I’m going to try rolling back to an older version of krita and see if that fixes it.

[Michelist]

Hello @ikewulf and welcome to the forum!

Can you confirm that you also use macOS, and would you be so kind to name the version of Krita you used for this “experience?”

And although the fonts are provided by the operating system*, it would be helpful to know which fonts are affected. Unfortunately, the OP has chosen not to answer us, so we don’t know if the problem has been solved or if help is still needed.
Thank you.

Michelist

Add/Edit: Krita ships with 1 font-family “SourceSansPro”, exactly:
SourceSansPro-Black.otf
SourceSansPro-BlackIt.otf
SourceSansPro-Bold.otf
SourceSansPro-BoldIt.otf
SourceSansPro-ExtraLight.otf
SourceSansPro-ExtraLightIt.otf
SourceSansPro-It.otf
SourceSansPro-Light.otf
SourceSansPro-LightIt.otf
SourceSansPro-Regular.otf
SourceSansPro-Semibold.otf
SourceSansPro-SemiboldIt.otf
That is the only font “Krita has on-board!”

[ikewulf]

I’m on Windows 10. 5.2.2 is the version where the fonts were breaking for me. I ended up just going back to 5.1.5 because I needed to work on my project immediately. The 5.1 version displayed the fonts appropriately so I would assume that the issue with fonts is in 5.2.

[mardorado]

I’m having this problem too. Is there a solution?

[agent_fist]

I think I have a similar issue to ikewulf and mardorado. Some fonts display correctly in the text edit window but not on the document view. Some fonts work correctly in both.

plus, it always cuts off the last character of whatever I’m making.

link to screenshot

[AhabGreybeard]

Four people with text font related problems but none of them will give the name of any font that has a problem.
@agent_fist has revealed the name of a particular font in a linked screenshot.
The font in the screenshot is Courier New [Mono]

I don’t have a font called Courier New [Mono] on my computer.
I have a font called Courier New and have no problem with it.

I wonder where Courier New [Mono] comes from.