Using your font in Microsoft Word

Word shows the whole of your font: your letters, your joins, the variation between repeated letters, and your spacing. No settings to change — it works on Word's defaults.

We test this by rendering fonts through real Word and comparing them against a stripped copy, so it's measured rather than assumed.

Two things can make it fall flat

An older font. If your font was made before mid-2026 and looks flat in Word — every repeated letter identical, no joins — remake and re-download it. We changed the method your font uses to carry these features to one Word reads by default. Older files are still perfectly good fonts; they don't tell Word everything they know. Making a new one takes seconds.

An old document. Word documents created long ago, or .doc files, can open in a compatibility mode that switches off modern font features. New documents are fine. If an old document looks flat while a new one looks right, that's the cause — save it as a current .docx.

What Word won't do

Word ignores one kind of spacing adjustment that other apps use. Your font carries a second copy of its spacing specifically so Word gets it right, so in practice you won't see a difference — it's worth knowing only if you're comparing very closely against a browser.

PowerPoint is different

PowerPoint is not Word. It shows your letters and spacing, but not the kerning, the joins or the variation between repeated letters, in every version. See PowerPoint, and what it can't do.

Still flat after remaking

Check that the font in your document is the newly installed one — Inkling names each version distinctly, so an old version may still be selected. Then restart Word. More on that.