What are the basic fonts for MacOS Catalina on a MacBook?

A collegue and I work together in producing a newsletter in PAGES. We both have the same version of Catalina and Pages. Her MacBook is almost three years newer than mine.


When I work on a document she has created, many of her fonts are missing from my computer or appear quite differently (for example: Ariel and Calibri). Since she has the newer computer and has not added fonts to hers, I need to bring mine up to speed. I could not find an answer but if you can help, I will be most appreciative.


Thank you in advance!

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Posted on Apr 27, 2020 10:22 AM

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Apr 27, 2020 10:59 AM in response to Jossarne

If you have Office 2016, 2019 or 365, Calibri is only available to the Office apps because they're embedded in each application package. The only way to make the set available to the rest of the system is by copying Calibri out of one of the apps so you can activate them with Font Book.


The Office apps also have Arial embedded. It's also a standard set installed with the OS. It shouldn't look any different from one Mac to the other. But, there could be enough difference between them depending on how Monotype has tweaked them over the years. The set installed with the OS is version 5.0x from 2006. With Office 2019 and 365, they're version 6.80i from 2012.


If she's using fonts you don't have at all, Pages defaults to displaying the missing font in Lucida Grande. The solution there, of course, is for her to send you the missing fonts.

Apr 27, 2020 10:30 AM in response to Jossarne

Fonts installed with macOS Catalina.



Calibri is licensed to, and installed with Microsoft Office 2008/2011 into System Font locations. When she upgraded to Catalina, those two applications would no longer work, but their fonts were retained. Catalina has Arial, and may attempt font translation to the Arial/Helvetica/Helvetica-neue sans-serif family when encountering Calibri.

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