Cannot find Sans font

[rich2005]

That might work for you, but the default 'Sans' font comes from the Gimp linux background. Many of the old script-fu filters referenced that font in their code.

From this this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/1...n_windows/

Ofnuts gave this explanation:

This is a font that doesn't correspond to any specific file. It is an indirect reference to a real font (a bit like a desktop shortcut). What it refers to totally depends on what fonts are installed on the system.

It is worth remembering.

[Althalus]

Came across the same type of problem in Gimp 2.10.34 last week: when editing a text in an older XCF, the font type in the text tool came up only as "Standard" and in red, with a tooltip "Font 'Sans' unavailable on this system". When looking at the XCF with a text editor, I also only found "Sans" as font type. Actually entering "Sans" as font type for the text in question resulted in a completely different font type than before, though.

While searching for what font type the generic "Sans" might have originally mapped to on my system, I came across this thread. The suggestion "DejaVu Sans" from this thread came very close, but didn't fit completely. A bit more searching for similar fonts gave me the solution, though. On my system, "Sans" was mapped to "Verdana". Probably not very surprising, in retrospect, since it is a Windows 10 system, but maybe the information will help other people with the same problem (at least on Windows systems; it might obviously map to other font types on other OS'es).

I entered "Verdana" as font type for the text in question, and the text then rendered exactly as before and I was able to make the edits I was trying to do.