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Tahoma sets new standards in system font design. The Arabic, Hebrew and Thai characters were designed by the Monotype Drawing Office to complement Carter's initial designs. The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters were designed by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and hand-instructed by leading hinting expert, Monotype's Tom Rickner.

These features give the fonts significant advantages over bitmap system fonts such as MS Sans Serif. Since the Tahomas are TrueType fonts, they can be rotated and scaled to any size, and anti-aliased by the rasterizer built into Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. It consists of two Windows TrueType fonts (regular and bold), and was created to address the challenges of on-screen display, particularly at small sizes in dialog boxes and menus. Tahoma is one of Microsoft's new sans serif typeface families. Tahoma is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Probably it was removed from the list during some previous updates.Company: Microsoft Corp.

The strange thing is, that the font was showing before.

Microsoft Office is up to date, no new updates are available.

I booted Mac Os using safe mode (holding shift) to reset the font cache, this didn't help either.

I used font book to check the fonts and search for duplicates, everything was alright.

I tried to copy the two fonts also to /Library/Fonts/Microsoft - this didn't work.

The folder /Library/Fonts/Microsoft doesn't contain any Tahoma fonts.

The folder /Library/Fonts contains "Tahoma Bold.ttf" and "Tahoma.ttf".

I found lots of guides here one AskDifferent, as well as on the apple support forums and some other forums. Other applications, like TextEdit, show Tahoma and I am able to use it just from picking it from the font list. If I just manually click into the list and write Tahoma, it works and I am able to use the Tahoma font.

I have the following problem: Using office for mac 2011 on Mac Os 10.9.4, I can use the font Tahoma in Word and Excel, but it doesn't show in the list, where you have to pick the font.