After upgrading to High Sierra, the Iowan Old Style font is not available. It is in my /Library/Fonts folder, but Font Book will not add it to the list. Apple lists this font as included with High Sierra.
Mac mini, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)
Oh, fer' cryin' out loud! How many fonts is Apple going to goof up?
It's not anything you're doing. Starting with El Capitan, these five fonts have (almost) never worked as they should in any Apple supplied app.
Athelas.ttc
Charter.ttc
Marion.ttc
Seravek.ttc
SuperClarendon.ttc
In High Sierra, the only way to make them work is to copy those fonts from a Yosemite install and replace the ones installed by the OS.
Now we get to add Iowan Old Style to the list. And it literally is only Apple's apps that won't see them. Not TextEdit, Pages, you name it. Here's TextEdit's list with the font active:
Nowhere to be seen. But Word 2016 (below), and any other third party app has no trouble seeing and using all of these "hidden" fonts.
What is Apple doing to cause their own apps to refuse to see and use certain fonts the OS installs? A poorly written function related to System Integrity Protection that is seeing the newer versions as infected? Who knows.
Like the five other fonts mentioned, I copied Iowan Old Style from Yosemite, and now it works everywhere, as it already should.
I'm going to have to check every single OS supplied font again and add the ones that don't work to my font article.
Oh, fer' cryin' out loud! How many fonts is Apple going to goof up?
It's not anything you're doing. Starting with El Capitan, these five fonts have (almost) never worked as they should in any Apple supplied app.
Athelas.ttc
Charter.ttc
Marion.ttc
Seravek.ttc
SuperClarendon.ttc
In High Sierra, the only way to make them work is to copy those fonts from a Yosemite install and replace the ones installed by the OS.
Now we get to add Iowan Old Style to the list. And it literally is only Apple's apps that won't see them. Not TextEdit, Pages, you name it. Here's TextEdit's list with the font active:
Nowhere to be seen. But Word 2016 (below), and any other third party app has no trouble seeing and using all of these "hidden" fonts.
What is Apple doing to cause their own apps to refuse to see and use certain fonts the OS installs? A poorly written function related to System Integrity Protection that is seeing the newer versions as infected? Who knows.
Like the five other fonts mentioned, I copied Iowan Old Style from Yosemite, and now it works everywhere, as it already should.
I'm going to have to check every single OS supplied font again and add the ones that don't work to my font article.
I chatted with Apple support. The duplicated the problem, and advised me to download the font from dafont. I did that successfully. They are reporting the problem to the OS development team.
The operating system is finding something wrong with this old font, and there is nothing to be done except find a free OpenType version of it online from a font source in each font-face that you need. Font Book will not help you with this font.
Rename the existing Iowan font before downloading a free font, and put the newly downloaded Iowan font-faces into your local (/Users/yourname/Library/Fonts) fonts folder.
FontsGeek dot com has some free Bitstream Iowan Old Style font faces in OpenType format. As usual, be extremely careful which download link you click on these free sites.
Good question. I see the same thing.
I was going to say, how old can the font be seeing it's included in a brand new install of High Sierra on iMac Pros. Thanks for the info. 😎
Thanks for getting on that so quickly. I was just going to go report it as a bug (for the FOURTH time).
Iowan Font Gone After Upgrade to High Sierra
