Standard OS font availability os a negotiable feature
Johan van Niekerk
I ONLY want to use fonts available natively on MacOS. I work on many machines and having to deal with non-standard fonts is a major problem. This is a make-or-break feature for me. If I have to keep on dealing with fonts that are not already on my machine i would rather stop subscribing than deal with the problem.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Totally hear you, Johan van Niekerk — font weirdness across machines is such a productivity killer. Quick clarifier so I can pass this to the team in a useful way: are you mainly worried about (1) editing in Gamma showing different fonts on different Macs, or (2) exports (PDF/PPT) not matching because the font isn’t installed? And is your ideal setup “only show the built-in macOS fonts in the font picker,” or “allow custom fonts but always fall back to a standard macOS font”? If you’ve got an example doc/export where it breaks, a screenshot (or a quick Loom) would help a ton.
Johan van Niekerk
Nik Payne (Gamma design) Thank you for getting back to me. My problems is the fact that your themes use fonts available to google slides, but not necessarily available on a standard macOS or windows machine. I export my slide decks to powerpoint and then have issues with fonts that are not installed. In some cases even installing the fonts on the specific machine still does not lead to easy embedding in powerpoint. This means i lose formatting when i reopen it later (often on different machines). So my ideal setup would be some form of theme category that says this theme uses only fonts native to a default macOS or a default windows install. As an example. I used the breeze theme for a slidedeck that i exported to powerpoint. Even after installing the fonts in the theme I get an "instrument sans light" font not available error.
Nik Payne (Gamma design)
Johan van Niekerk: Thanks!