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Thanks for the suggestion.

Yeah, I actually set up on that mission now, to Deactivate all the fonts that I know I won't ever need to use... but of course, first five that I clicked on I got "System Fonts Selected - Fonts automatically installed by Apple are selected. These fonts cannot be deleted or deactivated." Yeah there is going be lot of font's left that are useless, but still in Publisher as options. Maybe an idea for Affinity to create way to disable fonts inside the Affinity. I mean if software can identify the font by putting '!' in front of it, maybe there is an "easy way" to create function in preferences "disable this font". Just an idea.

OK, basically it may be than that all the font's with '!' are actually Lucida Grande. So whenever we see "Unsupported characters used" we should basically just reselect font to Lucida Grande as that is what is actually used (and that is what client approved in my case. Hm...

Yeah it appears more to be the case, this particular font may be used with Arabic writing only. Lucida Grande is main substitute in Ventura too and that actually may be the font I am seeing even though when selecting text I see "Damascus" [! Damascus].

Will look into that @loukash , thanks for the info. In mean time, did select few random fonts on a text, and ones that are appearing with '!' are mostly those arabic type fonts and ones with some sort of 'special characters' etc... So it could be connected with the latin vs arabic vs special characters...

Hm, puzzling now but I am pretty confident that exclamation mark was not there before. No I am not writing or trying to write in Arabic. The ad that I had saved using Damascus, the font was fine written in Latin characters (English language). Also I am thinking I would have seen that "Unsupported characters used" in "Font Manager, I go to Font Manager occasionally but now puzzled a bit.

I have not tried Onyx yet, was looking if I can find solution without third party software first. I have tried Preferences>Misc>Reset Fonts in Affinity but when pressing the "Reset Fonts" button, nothing happens. Button clicks/blinks, but you don't see it doing anything. It just blinks very quickly and if that is the function that did no change anything. Issue is still here.

@walt.farrell thanks for reply. As mentioned I sort of understand what it means, but the thing is we did not have this problem two weeks ago, it only happened after the update. I am looking for solution. Sure I can change the font and use different but that makes it not really a solution because;- a) that will mean let's say 30% of fonts in my computer are suddenly not usable by Affinity anymore b) all the artworks that are approved by clients that are saved, all of them will have to be re-opened, fonts in question changed and then sent to clients for another approval which is really not something one wants to go into. @stokerg Please find test file attached, font used is called "Damascus" or ['! Damascus' as it stands now]. test-file.afpub

Hello everyone, relatively new to Affinity software (6 months approx). My problem is, since updating Mac to Ventura the other day some fonts in my Publisher documents are now showing Exclamation mark (!) in front of the name and Font Manager says "Unsupported characters used". I have read some topics here about the issue, I get an idea what the problem is but can't find solution. Just to mention that before upgrade I absolutely did NOT have that issue. It seems to happen only to Affinity softwares, checked Designer and same issue is happening. Tried few other softwares "Pages" or "Text Edit" and font's have no issues there. Now suddenly seems like a lots of my fonts on my computer that I used before are not working properly in Affinity. I would say about 30% of fonts are now showing with Exclamation mark?!? Any idea why is this happening, are you guys aware of the issue, are you working on an update to rectify this. Thanks