Font Mystery

[Viktor CR]

I'm on Windows 11, Affinity 2.

Affinity is listing a custom font I'm using, which I must have added sometime ago
— yet other applications don't and I can not find that font anywhere on the system,

• neither in Windows\Fonts, 
• nor under %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Font
• or in the FontBase font manager

Any ideas, where those font files might be located on disk?

[Alfred]

Do you have Microsoft Office 365 installed? If the font comes from there it will be hidden to prevent access from software other than MS Office products.

[joe_l]

6 minutes ago, Alfred said:

it will be hidden to prevent access from software other than MS Office products

But Affinity sees it. @Viktor CR Have you looked already at %userprofile%\.affinity\Publisher\2.0\AffinityFonts ?

[Alfred]

2 minutes ago, joe_l said:

But Affinity sees it.

Oops, of course it does! In that case, I’m not sure what’s going on here.

[Viktor CR]

2 hours ago, joe_l said:

 Have you looked already at %userprofile%\.affinity\Publisher\2.0\AffinityFonts ?

Thank you! I have now. It is not in there, nor under the other adjacent folders.

[joe_l]

1 hour ago, Viktor CR said:

Thank you! I have now. It is not in there, nor under the other adjacent folders.

Strange. What is the name of the font?

[kenmcd]

10 hours ago, Viktor CR said:

Any ideas, where those font files might be located on disk?

Given that the font file is not in the Windows fonts folders, it has likely been activated by a font manager.

Given that it is only visible in Affinity it is likely that it was auto-activated for that application by a font manager.

You may be able confirm this by shutting down FontBase completely and see if it disappears.

If you modified another font, or made the font yourself, the font may have name fields which are confusing the applications. So the font should be checked.

I often activate fonts for testing from just about anywhere on my system by using a font manager to browse to the font files (FontExpert). So I could forget where it is. These temporary activations go away if the application or system is restarted.

[dominik]

11 hours ago, Viktor CR said:

Any ideas, where those font files might be located on disk?

There are several fonts that were an add on from Serif. They are installed in a way that they are only visible in the Affinity apps.

Check your account from the help menu and see if the font is listed there.

d.

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, dominik said:

There are several fonts that were an add on from Serif. They are installed in a way that they are only visible in the Affinity apps.

FWIW, they each have an *.affont extension & not only are they not visible in other apps, they come with a license that prohibits using them in anything other than Affinity (although this is not very clearly stated). See for example https://cdn.serif.com/store/resources/publication-typeface-collection/eula-publication-typeface-collection.pdf for the Publications Typefaces Collection.