Show Document Font Data
From CC 2014, InDesign's 'Find Font' dialog no longer shows the type and status of a document's fonts. The script fixes that.
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From CC 2014, InDesign’s Find Font dialog no longer shows the type and status of a document’s fonts. The script fixes that. Run the script with a document open and it shows the fonts status and type as shown in the screenshot.
Font type: Can be ATC, Bitmap, CID, OCF, OpenType CCF, OpentType CID, OpenType TT, Truetype, Type 1, or Unknown. Adobe fonts have (AF) affixed to their type.
Font status: Fauxed, Installed, Not available, Substituted, or Unknown.
To show more details of a font, select it and click Details. This opens a new window and simply lists all font properties exposed to scripting and the type sizes used in the document.
To save the contents of the dialog to a file, click Save; the file is stored on your desktop under the name ShowFonts.txt and will be opened and displayed immediately.
Version history
14 Jan. 2026: In the Details window the font location now indicates whether a font is an Adobe font.
9 May 2025: Added feature: double-click the location line in the details window (eleventh line from the top of the list) and the script shows the font’s folder. But this appears to have stopped working in ID2026, possibly earlier as well.
23 Nov. 2021: The details window now shows the type sizes of the font’s occurrences.
13 May 2021: Added an indication of whether a font is synced from Adobe Fonts.
6 May 2018: Added an indication of whether a font is a Typekit font.
13 July 2016: The script needed the Windows 10 update to ensure that the list is displayed correctly.
7 July 2015: The close button on the dialog’s frame doesn’t show on the Mac, so I added a button to close the window.
9 March 2015: First posted.
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This article was last modified on August 22, 2026
This article was first published on November 3, 2025
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