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Turns out, I had to “prioritize” this font. I found the solution in this troubleshooting guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/issues-with-fonts-in-office-for-macos-66a299b2-47ec-43bd-a196-a56b94d2ae88?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
For general Shantell Sans use, if you have downloaded the font from this GitHub repo (not from e.g. Google Fonts, where the fonts are modified a bit), I would recommend the following for general MS Office use:
defaults write com.microsoft.office PrioritizedFonts -array "ShantellSansNormal-Regular" "ShantellSansNormal-Italic" "ShantellSansNormal-Bold" "ShantellSansNormal-BoldItalic"
If you want the multiple variants of Shantell Sans, you can change "Normal" in the above command to "Informal", "Bouncy", and/or "InformalBouncy", e.g. ShantellSansInformalBouncy-Regular
etc.
For Shantell Sans Variable, the basic postscript names are slightly simpler, so if you only wish to install the variable font for some reason, you could use:
defaults write com.microsoft.office PrioritizedFonts -array "ShantellSans-Regular" "ShantellSans-Italic" "ShantellSans-Bold" "ShantellSans-BoldItalic"
I’ve just found that I can’t see Shantell Sans in the font menu of MS Word for Mac. It does work in Windows 11 Word, and every other app I’ve tried it in.
I’ve installed the latest Shantell Sans version (1.008), then nuked my OS font cache and restarted. Word for Mac is (almost) the latest version – v 16.68, from December 2022.
This is true for both static and variable fonts.
MS Word is notoriously obnoxious for font designers. But, surely there is a way to get this working. Things to try: