{"id":3050,"date":"2010-08-26T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3050-font-does-not-support-style-regular.html"},"modified":"2010-08-26T10:33:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:33:50","slug":"font-does-not-support-style-regular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3050-font-does-not-support-style-regular.html","title":{"rendered":"Font does not support style regular \u2013 a fix for this annoying error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those strange Windows things. You\u2019ll be working away, try to perform some action that would normally open a dialog or window, when you see a message like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image26.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/image_thumb26.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In this case it is Font \u2018Lucida Sans\u2019 does not support style \u2018Regular\u2019; but the font varies and other common ones are Courier New, Arial, Times New Roman. <\/p>\n<p>So what does this mean? In my experience, it means the font is present on your system but incorrectly registered. The fix is simple: remove the font and then reinstall it. I can\u2019t promise that this will always work, but it has always worked for me, and I\u2019ve encountered the problem a few times.<\/p>\n<p>For example, this is what I did in this particular case. In Explorer, I navigated to c:\\windows\\fonts. I noticed that Lucida Sans was installed, but the only styles showing were Demibold Italic, Italic, and Demibold Roman. Not Regular.<\/p>\n<p>Next, I opened an administrative command prompt. I navigated to c:\\windows\\fonts. I copied the file LSANS.TTF to a temporary location \u2013 anywhere that is NOT in the fonts folder \u2013 I used my Documents folder. Then I deleted the copy in the fonts folder.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I went back to Windows Explorer, found my copy of LSANS.TTF, selected it and chose Copy. Then I navigated to c:\\windows\\fonts and chose Edit \u2013 Paste. Presto! Lucida Sans Regular appeared in the font list and the error message in the application disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that might not be obvious is what file name represents the font you need. You can normally figure it out though; if in doubt, try all the likely candidates until you find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those strange Windows things. You\u2019ll be working away, try to perform some action that would normally open a dialog or window, when you see a message like this: In this case it is Font \u2018Lucida Sans\u2019 does not support style \u2018Regular\u2019; but the font varies and other common ones are Courier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/3050-font-does-not-support-style-regular.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Font does not support style regular \u2013 a fix for this annoying error<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[399,920,996],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-fonts","tag-troubleshooting","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}