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Keynote fonts not reading correctly Mac OS Monterey

Just updated to the latest and greatest MacBook Pros, but I'm noticing in some keynote presentations that the fonts imported through Adobe Fonts have extra extra tight character spacing—the characters basically overlap.


This is only with the Regular version of the fonts, all others seem to be ok.


Is this an OS thing, a Keynote thing, or an Adobe thing?


thanks in advance

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Oct 27, 2021 9:32 AM

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Posted on Oct 31, 2021 1:43 PM

It seems to be a font cache problem. You can temporarily fix it by clearing the font cache but the problem will reappear after a while. Execute these commands in Terminal to clear the cache:


  1. $ sudo atsutil databases -remove
  2. Enter your system password and hit return.
  3. $ atsutil server -shutdown
  4. $ atsutil server -ping
  5. Reboot
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Nov 5, 2021 12:32 AM in response to Ladislao

Of course, you have to start from scratch, since none of the 3rd party font software can be used and all the fonts installed with these font managers are displayed incorrectly. 


So deactivate all these fonts, quit the 3rd party font software and now, of course, only all system fonts and pre-installed fonts from Apple are active again.


Now you just start Apple’s Font Book and install all your needed fonts in this app and only in this app again.


It is strange that you have to restart the system after installing your fonts, they should actually be usable immediately after installation. But if it works that way, it's probably okay too.

Nov 9, 2021 7:52 AM in response to phil_in_queens

My workaround, while apple and Adobe are trying to find a solution (this worked in pages).

Fino Sans is the font that was missing so I typed a line in NOTES, changed is to Fino Sans, Copied it to PAGES and it worked!


It's fully editable and I can copy it within the document to other pages (but it still does not show up in my text choices or Font Book .

Nov 10, 2021 4:20 AM in response to phil_in_queens

Numbers and Pages failing big time with fonts in Monterey since upgrade.


Can't load in fonts by font book - neither old postscript nor google truetype fonts.

List of available fonts very short.

Lots of fonts listed but missing with crossed out circle next to displayed name

Lots of fonts just tofu. Square with cross.


It was working fine but then I just wanted to add a font with an up arrow and its destroyed the functionality.


Using typeface as my font manager.

Other applications such as the affinity suite are just fine.


Nov 17, 2021 8:00 PM in response to Rob Lux

I just updated Keynote to it's latest version 11.2, but it didn't fix anything. Still the same issue with the fonts. Even after I reinstalled the font and restarted the machine it would work for just that startup, but when I shut it down and start it up again, it would go back to the same garbled crap. Oh well, I'm sure it'll be fixed with the next major OS update.

Dec 6, 2021 8:45 AM in response to phil_in_queens

I've had this issue and after exhausting everything this worked for me (via adobe support)


It's a font cache problem.

1. Open Terminal

2. Type: sudo atsutil databases -remove

3. Enter your system password and hit return.

4. Type: atsutil server -shutdown

5. Type: atsutil server -ping

6. Now it is important that you restart you Mac, or the cache issue will reappear.

Dec 6, 2021 8:55 AM in response to Michael Hyatt1

The first page solution wasn't working for me either. But after updating everything (11.2 keynote) and doing those terminal commands it's worked. So might be worth trying again. Obviously understand might not work for everyone. It really is an embarrassing issue for Apple. I have had some many permission problems since using Monterey and had to change several workflows because of it. Hopefully Apple wills start releasing properly tested updates.

Dec 7, 2021 2:19 PM in response to Marc Rinderknecht

I also have the same situation. I manage fonts with FontExplorer X Pro and only on Keynote and Pages some families are compromised. I tried all of them too: remove the cache from terminal, remove fonts from Creative Cloud (but the problem is not only with Adobe fonts), even rename the family and "weight" (since it seems to have several problems with Regular fonts) with Glyph but not even that. I'm hoping for the Mac OS 12.1 update that fixes the problems. Do you know when it will be released since they released the RC to developers today?

Keynote fonts not reading correctly Mac OS Monterey

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