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How do I get Old English Font in mac word?

I want to use the Old English font that used to be included in word. I googled, but everything I found is at least eight years old.


I'm using a MacBook Air with OSMojave.



Macbook (2016 or later)

Posted on Dec 26, 2018 11:52 AM

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Posted on Dec 26, 2018 1:41 PM

Old English was never included with Office. I checked my saved font installs for Office X, 2008, 2011, 2016 and 365. It's not there. Nor in the fonts provided by OS 9, or any version of OS X / macOS.


In my couple of jillion fonts, the only source of Old English is Adobe's Type 1 Postscript (and later Font Folio 11 OpenType) version, and a slightly different version from Agfa MonoType.


Other than that, it doesn't matter how old the font is, just that it's a type the Mac can use. Any PC TrueType font, Mac legacy TrueType, Mac Type 1 PostScript, or any flavor of OpenType will do.

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Dec 26, 2018 1:41 PM in response to 77Telecaster

Old English was never included with Office. I checked my saved font installs for Office X, 2008, 2011, 2016 and 365. It's not there. Nor in the fonts provided by OS 9, or any version of OS X / macOS.


In my couple of jillion fonts, the only source of Old English is Adobe's Type 1 Postscript (and later Font Folio 11 OpenType) version, and a slightly different version from Agfa MonoType.


Other than that, it doesn't matter how old the font is, just that it's a type the Mac can use. Any PC TrueType font, Mac legacy TrueType, Mac Type 1 PostScript, or any flavor of OpenType will do.

Dec 26, 2018 2:27 PM in response to Kurt Lang

Amusingly, I have a June 1992 v001.003 Monotype Old English Text MT Regular TrueType font face here. 247 characters. This may be a fugitive font from a really old Photoshop 3/Illustrator 8 installation. Still works in Pages v7.3, LibreOffice v6.1.4.2, but does not show up in the font menu for TextMaker rev942 in SoftMaker's Office 2018 Suite.

How do I get Old English Font in mac word?

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