Fonts displaying as Squares and Glyphs not displaying at all

Bugs
#1

Windows 10 Pro, Version 22H2, OS build 19045.2604
FontBase version 2.18.1

Some of my font families are not, or only partially, displaying. I was previously using Extensis Connect and these families did display correctly. Also, the Glyphs for the fonts that are represented by squares only show a generic font glyph. Here are images of the one of the font families in question:

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Since I’m only allowed a single image upload, here are the images in Google Photos.

#2

Oh, one more thing. I have a project in Photoshop that uses Charon Bold, and the font name displays with a preview in the font’s menu. Fontbase is also able to auto-open the font for me, so everything is working except for the font display in Fontbase.

#3

Hi @marcos97, thank you for the post and for the detailed explanation :pray:
This looks very similar that this thread:

Perhaps the solutions/workarounds mentioned there could be useful in your case?
Let us know if it helps,
Thank you again,
Yuriy
FontBase Dev Team

#4

I ended up converting the original type 1 Postscript files to OTFs. I didn’t really want to, as I wanted to keep them in their original format. It’s funny that TakeType 2.1 TT and TakeType 4 TT which come before and come after TakeType 3 TT respectively have no problems. Also, I wonder how come Extensis Connect was able to display the font but Fontbase was not. Perhaps you would like me to forward you the Charon Type family that I first brought to your attention in the post to you for analysis as to why some fonts displayed and some didn’t.

#5

Thank you for the quick reply :pray:
Looks like at the moment this issue has less to do with what we can influence on our end and more with the underlying technology FontBase is built upon, I’m sorry. Unfortunately this does happen to some fonts, but we are tracking the possibilities of potentially fixing this one.
Thank you again for the thorough investigation,