![]() Install your new font versions or activate them in your font manager.Note: no need to quit Adobe CC apps, they can recognize newly-installed fonts on the fly. ![]() ![]() Quit Office apps (without saving your docs, no need).Even open a doc that uses the now-missing font! This gives the app and its cache a chance to recognize the font is no longer there and update appropriately. Relaunch those darn font-caching apps, including Adobe CC apps and Microsoft Office.Don’t just overwrite it in place with the new version! (If you are using a font management app, you can just deactivate, but I usually nuke them anyway, I don’t need 170 versions of the same font kicking around.) Then, uninstall the “old” font version from your OS.Close apps that you are using the fonts in, particularly those which cache your fonts, including Adobe CC apps and Microsoft Office.There are two options for fonts with the same internal names on the desktop, plus to avoid the problem entirely, there is an approach to making font names unique, and some links to web-based test sites. When working this way, as best as I recall, in the past 10–15 years, I have only hit font caching problems once! I suspect that was just a failure to apply my method religiously enough. This applies to both Mac and Windows, and across all apps as well. Here are some approaches for reliably swapping versions of fonts that have the same internal names, to new versions. So if you are not having trouble, and you are swapping fonts some other way, good for you! But if you are having trouble, here are some more options. Note that latest versions of Adobe CC apps may recognize fonts swapped on the fly. The app you are using a font in may sometimes still display/use the old version, even though you replaced it! So for people who need to be absolutely sure they are getting the new version, here are some options. For people who design fonts, swapping versions of your font can be a problem, as your operating system or apps have font caches which may become confused when you replace your fonts on the fly.
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