Reply To: Deleted fonts still show up in Indesign font list.

No luck with those but I did finally solve it!

It’s one of those strange windows quirks.
Fonts may not show up (or will show up but be unusable)
if you have no printer installed or an invalid print driver.

That wasn’t exactly my case, but I noticed an old printer was showing
in my list of printers, and had a warning triangle next to it.
I removed that printer, and now the font list is correct again.

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I did try some other suggestions. It’s possible they helped.
Before I tried the fixes below, a recently-installed free font
disappeared from indesign, when it was working fine before.

1. I opened windows font folder and quickly reinstalled all of them by ctrl+A (select all), right click, install.
It will pop up errors and prompts if a non-font file got highlighted, you can just click “OK” and check
the relevant “yes to all” box.

2. I converted the font folder from a special system folder into a normal folder.
The advantage to this is that no fonts or files are hidden, you can always write to it without errors,
and it doesn’t automatically group by family if you prefer to see previews of every font
without having to open its ‘family subfolder’.
You can also use normal folder operations (sorting and grouping) and make it open for network users to modify.

Anyone who wants to do this, be warned that I have no idea how to reverse it.
But in my opinion this is worth doing. Hasn’t caused me any issues.

To do it, open an elevated command prompt (start, type CMD in the run box, you’ll see cmd.exe appear
at the top of the menu… ctrl+shift+right click it, choose “run as administrator”).
Then copy this line and right click –> paste into your command prompt.

attrib -r -s c:\Windows\Fonts

It will lose that special “Font Folder” look but you can still get large (and even extra large) previews.

3. I rebooted.