'Helvetica neue light' font stopped displaying correctly

Hello everyone,

Thank you for sharing your feedback regarding fonts not working as expected after upgrading to Word for Mac version 16.9. 

As Sky mentioned, the new Word version 16.9.1 has been released. It addresses compatibility issues in Word with some third-party fonts or in mixed-language environments. If you have not upgraded to 16.9.1, we recommend downloading and installing the update from this article.

If the font issue persists in version 16.9.1, to help every community member who come across this thread easily identify the needed information, we have summarized the symptoms for your reference:

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Symptom 1:

'Helvetica neue light' font not displaying correctly in Word for Mac

Solution:

The issue has been fixed in Word 16.9.1. You can download and install the update from this article.

More information:

Several users mention Word 16.9.1 has fixed the issue with 'Helvetica neue light' font. However, if this does not fix the 'Helvetica neue light' font issue for you, please leave your comment in this thread. Microsoft Forum Moderator may contact you to collect more information for further troubleshooting.

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Symptom 2:

Other built-in font not working as expected in Word 16.9.1.

Current Status:

We will test "Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold" and share our findings shortly.

@Henry Hwong, thank you for bring this up to us.

Action Plan:

If you are facing issues with a different built-in font, please post in this thread and share the affected font with us. We will further investigate the issue and provide an update in the same thread.

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Symptom 3:

Third-party font cannot be found in Word 16.9.1 but works fine in Excel 16.9 and other applications.

Current status:

We have received several threads regarding this symptom. The issue has been escalated to our Engineering team and we are actively working on this. We will continue to monitor the progress and share the latest status via this link.

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Others

If the font problem you are facing with Word for Mac version 16.9.1 is not listed above, we appreciate if you can post a new forum thread so that we can focus on different types of font problems individually. Forum moderators will help to categorize similar issues and redirect you to a parent thread if needed. This will also help community members to identify the issues and subscribe to the related parent thread for latest updates.

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We appreciate your posts and feedbacks and will continue working with related teams to address the issues above.

Regards,

Kelly

The Insider Fast version of Microsoft Word released yesterday, 16.13 build 180409, RESTORES POSTSCRIPT TYPE 1 FONTS TO THE FONT MENU. @Sky Pei  @Jim Gordon MVP

The few I've tried are working normally in newly created documents, and documents that would not open with correct fonts in any version since Word 15.41 do open correctly in this one.

The long wait has been aggravating, but many thanks to the developers at Microsoft for persisting and apparently getting this under control (or at least being on the way to doing so; the Berkeley font family problem that I reported separately remains).

@Nislander, 16.12 did not restore the Postscript fonts when I tried it in the Insider version. / Rich