Microsoft Office Fonts For Mac



Many Mac® users consider the fonts on Mac to be more elegant than the fonts on Windows, and therefore they want to use their Mac fonts in their PowerPoint presentations. Figure 1, however, shows what can happen when you send those presentations to Windows users, or use a Windows PC to drive the projector in your presentation. It is not pretty.

Technology to the Rescue: Font Embedding

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Normally, fonts are installed in the OS—either macOS® or Windows—and applications access the fonts installed in the OS they’re running on. Font embedding is the technology of actually adding fonts into the document you’re working with. When you do this (and assuming that the application supports embedded fonts) your document will look as you intended, regardless of where you view it.

Microsoft Office for Windows applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) have supported font embedding for some time. As of February 2018, PowerPoint 2016 for Mac added support for embedded fonts. (Notice that I said “support for embedded fonts,” not “support for embedding fonts.” There is a difference, as explained later in this post.)

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Using this new capability in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, Figure 2 shows what the not-very-pretty presentation from Figure 1 looks like after properly embedding the Mac fonts that are not available in Windows.

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Figure 2_With font embedding — perfect results

Two Approaches to Font Embedding

Before I show you how to embed fonts, I need to explain about the two approaches to font embedding, and the pros and cons of each approach.

Figure 3 shows the two basic approaches to font embedding:

1) embedding the actual font file (or a portion of it) in the document, and

2) embedding the outlines of each character used in the document.

There are pros and cons to each approach:

Embed the Font File

Embed the Outlines of Characters Used

Pros

ConsPros

Cons

Text can be editedCan significantly increase the file size of the documentWorks for all fontsText cannot be edited
Some fonts are tagged “Not embeddable” by the font creatorWorks in all document typesDoes not work in some OSes
Does not work with some older font typesWorks in most applications
Works with all font types

How to Embed in PowerPoint

PowerPoint for Mac

While the latest version of PowerPoint 2016 for Mac supports embedded fonts if they’re present, it does not have the ability to actually embed fonts. For this, you must use a third-party utility. The one that I’ve used successfully is Presentation Font Embedder (available in the Mac App Store, or as a direct purchase). It’s simple to use (Figure 4) but slightly expensive ($27.49 USD) compared to other single-purpose utilities.

Figure 4_Presentation Font Embedder

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PowerPoint for Windows

PowerPoint for Windows has the ability to embed fonts, so no third-party utility is generally needed. From the “Save As” dialog (Figure 5), click on the “Tools” menu and choose “Save Options…”

In that Options dialog (Figure 6), choose “Embed fonts” in the file preference.

Figure 6_The WinPowerPoint Save options

A Possible Complication

The creator of a font can mark it as non-embeddable. For such a font, you must use the outline method shown in Figure 3.

In Windows 10, it’s easy to determine if a font is embeddable, since the Font window contains a column showing the embeddability. (See Figure 7.) If the Font Embeddability column shows anything other than “Editable,” the font probably can’t be embedded.

Figure 7_In windows 10, you can easily see if a font is embeddable

On the Mac, the only way I’ve found to determine if a font is embeddable is to try and embed it; if you get an error message (Figure 8), then that font is not embeddable.

Figure 8_Error message when a font is not embeddable

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Text to Outline – Add-in for Mac and Windows

For years now, whenever I wanted to use a special font in a PPT presentation – and wanted to make sure that everyone would be able to see the text in this font correctly – I used a free WinPowerPoint add-in, Text to Outline. I would move my presentation to Windows, open it up in WinPowerPoint, use this add-in, and then move the presentation back to Mac.

The developers of this add-in have recently ported it to Mac so that it works in MacPowerPoint 2016. You can get it here.

Here is what your MacPowerPoint ribbon will look like after installing this add-in:

For further details on font embedding, see the following:

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Overview

Microsoft Sans Serif font is a very legible User Interface (UI) font. It was designed to be metrically compatible with the MS Sans bitmap font that shipped in early versions of Microsoft Windows.

File nameMicross.ttf
Styles & WeightsMicrosoft Sans Serif
DesignersN/A
Copyright© 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Font vendorMicrosoft Corp.
Script Tagsdlng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Latn'
slng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Geor', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn', 'Thai'
Code pages1252 Latin 1
1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe
1251 Cyrillic
1253 Greek
1254 Turkish
1255 Hebrew
1256 Arabic
1257 Windows Baltic
1258 Vietnamese
874 Thai
Mac Roman Macintosh Character Set (US Roman)
862 Hebrew
860 MS-DOS Portuguese
437 US
Fixed pitchFalse

Licensing and redistribution info

  • Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
  • License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations

Products that supply this font

Activate Office 2016 For Mac - Office Support

Product nameFont version
Windows 10See the Windows 10 page.
Windows 8.1See the Windows 8.1 page.
Windows 8See the Windows 8 page.
Windows 7See the Windows 7 page.
Windows Vista5.00
Windows XP1.33
Windows 20000.93
Windows Server 20085.00
Windows Server 20031.33

This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.

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Style & weight examples