google / google/fonts

Playfair Display not working across macOS/Windows

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A user wrote,

> In our company we are using the „Playfair Display“ font. One of our colleagues is using a Windows device while all the others are using Apple devices.
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> When my colleague with his Windows device opens a Powerpoint file, which I sent with my Macbook, instead of the Playfair Display font a fallback font is displayed.
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> We already deleted and installed the font, but the problem is still there. Between Macbooks there is no such issue and I already tried to send the file zipped, to see if this is related to the mail program, which is not the case.

I guess this may be because the name table of the currently shipping fonts is not set up correctly.

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