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RE: Cannot find Sans font - rich2005 - 07-07-2023
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/14mat7o/sansserif_under_a_different_name_on_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.
RE: Cannot find Sans font - Althalus - 09-15-2023
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.