- #Add font to powerpoint 2016 mac for mac#
- #Add font to powerpoint 2016 mac install#
- #Add font to powerpoint 2016 mac Pc#
#Add font to powerpoint 2016 mac Pc#
On a PC it only works with some fonts – not all – and it doesn’t travel to a Mac. So embedding isn’t really a good solution. If you’re on a Mac, you’re going get some strange substitute font and it’s sure to look bad. But most of the time, you can embed a True Type font in a PC Presentation and other people (also on PC) can view it.īut what about Mac? Sorry. And some True Type fonts can’t be embedded at all. The downside? From font to font, permissions can vary, which means that the person on the receiving end might or might not be able to actually edit your presentation. If the person you are sending the presentation to doesn’t have the font, they can still see the presentation just as you intend. On the PC (not the Mac) you can embed True Type fonts (most of them, but not all). So how can we be sure the person that receives the file can see it the way we designed it? Option 1: Embedding And we already decided we want to make it look better with a custom font. So we’ve got a surplus of ugly going on here. (There are more, but they are too horrible for me to write the whole list – just take my word for it).If you want your presentation to be viewable on both Mac and PC, you either have to be sure that everybody that will use the presentation has custom font installed, or stick with the safe fonts that Mac and PC have in common: There are only a few fonts that you can be reasonably sure will be on both. But the biggest issue with system fonts is that the fonts on a Mac and the fonts on a PC have very little in common. Most of the system standard fonts aren’t very attractive. Most people don’t have the 3 rd party fonts we used earlier in the article on their machines they just have the basic fonts that were installed when it came out of the box. If you send it to someone that doesn’t have the font, it looks wonky. If they don’t have it, it will look like this:
If you need to send your presentation to someone else, they need to have the font on their machine too. What if I have to send my presentation to someone else? PostScript is lame and I’m not going to talk about it any more in this article.
#Add font to powerpoint 2016 mac for mac#
But you have to buy separate versions of the font for Mac and PC. True Type is popular among PC users of PowerPoint because it can be embedded (don’t worry I’ll get there in a minute). OpenType is kind of the wave of the future.
#Add font to powerpoint 2016 mac install#
Buy the licenses and install them on whatever machine you need. Increasingly agencies are moving to OpenType fonts because they value the cross-platform compatibility. Post Script – Not as common these come with separate on-screen and printing files.True Type – These are either Mac or PC, but can’t be copied from one to the other.
Open Type – these are cross-platform (the same font can be loaded and work on a Mac or PC).There are three main types of fonts, and believe it or not, you need to know the difference: Simple, right? Well there’s a little more to it, so read on… Types of fonts So the template and the design are generic, but it helps show that simply changing the fonts improves the presentation. Here we’re using Digital and Hand of Sean to make it a bit more interesting.* But I think we could add a bit more character here.