Google Fonts - Japanese in Font Book

I installed just one of them, Noto Sans JP Regular and have no problem choosing it from the Word font list and using the Apple Hiragana IM to type Japanese with it (nihongo space on the keyboard), picture below.

Does it not appear in Word for you? Does the Japanese IM not work right?

katsu448 wrote:

Hello Apple Community,

I’m trying to install Google Fonts into Font Book specifically Noto Sans Japanese and Noto Serif Japanese.

Do those fonts have some particularly good properties in your view? Apple has quite a few Japanese fonts already installed by default in MacOS, as shown below (not including Noto and Unifont, which I added).

I have no problem usiing Long Cang in TextEdit, see below. It does appear on the Font list in Word and I can select it, but as you say, if you try to type Chinese, Word won't use it. I will look for a fix, but you may need to ask in the Word forum about that.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-msoffice_unknown-mso_OPMac?sort=LastReplyDate&dir=Desc&tab=All&status=all&mod=&modAge=&advFil=&postedAfter=&postedBefore=&threadType=all&isFilterExpanded=true&page=1

It really doesn't matter whether fonts show up in some particular place in Font Book, wlhich is usually buggy somewhere, and normally not of much use for anything practical. Many fonts cover multiple scripts in addition to what their name implies.

It does matter of course, if a font does not show up in the app where you want to use it. Can you see your Chinese font in Pages or Text Edit? If not in the drop down menu right away, check Format > Font > Show Fonts > All Fonts.

Word is not from Apple and does a lot of things its own way. If you provide the name and source of a font which does not work in that app, I am happy to test it on my machine.

I have tried putting Long Cang inside the Word app and in both Home/Library/Fonts and Library/Fonts, and also copy pasting text from another app, but nothing works to make Word use it for Chinese. Perhaps Google Fonts support would have an idea.