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createFont is not working. I just installed some new fonts in my pc but they doesn't work in Processing.
They appear in PFont.list(); but they don't work. Also, if I go into Tools>Create Font all the fonts I installed appears as "Dialog.plain" that looks exactly the same as Arial.
I tried reinstalling the fonts and also reinstalling Processing but it didn't work

I'm using Processing 3.4 on Windows 10

Same problem here: for some reason, certain fonts in the system (like any downloaded from Google Fonts for instance) are not available for use with createFont() and when searched via Tools>Create Font , in the alphabetic place where they should appear there is instead a pointer to Dialog.plain !

I have noticed though that it might be a Windows 10 specific problem, since I get the same behavior on my two Windows 10 machines, but not on my Windows 8 machine (for the exact same font files...)

@MasterPlaying @senorcat I think I found the problem!

Apparently, Windows 10 by default installs user fonts in a folder different than C:\Windows\Fonts , in my case C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Fonts . Therefore, Processing detects their name on the system, but cannot locate their files, defaulting to Dialog.plain . I guess this happens here for the PDF renderer for example?