Installing language-associated features via language settings:
This is a permanent change in behavior for Windows client, and it will remain this way in future releases.
If you want to use these fonts, you can enable the optional feature to add them back to your system. If you have documents created using the missing fonts, these documents might display differently on Windows client.įor example, if you have an English (or French, German, or Spanish) version of Windows 10 installed, you might notice that fonts such as the following are appear to be missing: As a result, these fonts appear to be missing from the system. If you install a fresh instance of Windows client, or upgrade an older version of Windows to Windows client, these optional features are not enabled by default.
To reduce the operating system footprint, improve performance, and optimize disk space usage, we moved many of the fonts that were previously shipped with prior versions of Windows to the optional features of Windows client. When you upgrade from the Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 operating system to Windows 10 or Windows 11, certain fonts are no longer available by default post-upgrade.
